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Farewell to Growth (Paperback): S Latouche Farewell to Growth (Paperback)
S Latouche
R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much - too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash. We are aware of what is happening and yet we refuse to take it fully into account. Above all we refuse to address the issue that lies at the heart of our problems - namely, the fact that our societies are based on an economy whose only goal is growth for growth's sake.

Serge Latouche argues that we need to rethink from the very foundations the idea that our societies should be based on growth. He offers a radical alternative - a society of 'de-growth'. De-growth is not the same thing as negative growth. We should be talking about 'a-growth', in the sense in which we speak of 'a-theism'. And we do indeed have to abandon a faith or religion - that of the economy, progress and development--and reject the irrational and quasi-idolatrous cult of growth for growth's sake.

While many realize that that the never-ending pursuit of growth is incompatible with a finite planet, we have yet to come to terms with the implications of this - the need to produce less and consume less. But if we do not change course, we are heading for an ecological and human disaster. There is still time to imagine, quite calmly, a system based upon a different logic, and to plan for a 'de-growth society'.

Milk Composition, Production and Biotechnology (Hardcover): Robert Welch, Donald A. Burns, Stephen Davis, A.J. Popay, Colin... Milk Composition, Production and Biotechnology (Hardcover)
Robert Welch, Donald A. Burns, Stephen Davis, A.J. Popay, Colin Prosser
R4,331 Discovery Miles 43 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Major changes have recently taken place in the value attached to components of milk. Although approximately half the energy in milk is contained in fat, fat is rapidly decreasing in value relative to protein. This has come about because of the increased availability of competitively-priced, plant-derived edible oils and because of the perceived health problems associated with animal fat in the human diet. Such changes have major implications for the dairy sector, particularly in developed countries. Against this background, this book presents a timely review of developments in milk production and consumption, of changes in milk component values, and of the opportunities that biotechnology provides to alter the composition of and add value to milk on the farm. The subject coverage is very broad, ranging from nutritional aspects of pastures and forages, to rumen microbiology, genetics and reproductive technologies, milk biochemistry and environmental implications. It is based on a conference held in Wellington, New Zealand, in February 1996, and sponsored by the OECD and AgResearch. Contributors include leading research workers from North America, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. It provides an invaluable overview of the subject, suitable as a reference book for advanced students, researchers and advisers in dairy science as well as related disciplines such as grassland, nutritional and food sciences.

?Como compro inteligentemente? (Spanish, Paperback): Andres Panasiuk ?Como compro inteligentemente? (Spanish, Paperback)
Andres Panasiuk
R213 R138 Discovery Miles 1 380 Save R75 (35%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Estirar el dinero parece ser lo que todos desean. Como vivimos en una sociedad donde impera el consumerismo, se hace dificil comprar lo que se necesita no por emociones ni deseos. En su libro "?Como compro inteligentemente?, " Andres Panasiuk presenta siete principios faciles de aplicar al comprar, asi como una guia precisa para hacer mayores inversiones.

Longing and Belonging - Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture (Paperback): Allison Pugh Longing and Belonging - Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture (Paperback)
Allison Pugh
R751 R646 Discovery Miles 6 460 Save R105 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Tying shoelaces, jumping rope, listening to circle-time stories, Allison Pugh immersed herself in the busy--and commercial-studded--worlds of schoolchildren. In this brilliantly argued, lyrically written and riveting book, Pugh asks how kids cope with the incessant ads for the must-have toy, the latest shoe, the coolest game. Children don't cave into or resist capitalism, Pugh tells us. They build worlds of their own from it. 'Corporate marketing acts as a powerful mint, ' she writes, 'always churning out shinier coinage, but not always dictating whether or how those tokens are used.' They set up their own Lilliputian 'economies of dignity' which poignantly determine who does and doesn't feel worthy of belonging to the group. A complement to Juliet Schor's "Born to Buy," Pugh's book is a must-read."--Arlie Hochschild, author of "The Time Bind" and "The Commercialization of Intimate Life"
"Pugh is curious about what parents buy for their kids, what they refuse to buy, and why they make the decisions they do. But this isn't a marketing book. Far from it: Pugh is very critical of corporations that cynically target young children. But she is attempting to understand the social and emotional consequences of this commercial culture for children and for family life. She argues--quite convincingly--that consumerism has negatively impacted the quality of relationships in families and in society in general. By focusing on consumption instead of production, she also develops a fresh new approach to analyzing social inequality."--Christine Williams, author of "Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality"
"In her richly documented ethnographic study, Allison Pugh firstidentifies, then resolves, an important contrast in American working-class and middle-class approaches to their children's acquisition of consumer goods: symbolic indulgence on the working-class side, symbolic deprivation on the middle-class side. Her work offers deep insights into children's experience in contemporary America."--Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University
"Written with extraordinary grace and insight, Allison Pugh has given us a truly original and fresh way of understanding the material desires of children. With vivid interviews, she shows with both subtlety and force how the emotional needs of children and their parents has shaped overconsumption today. This should be read well beyond the academy and for a long time."--Gary Cross, author of "An All-Consuming Century"
"This imaginative and beautifully written book makes a significant contribution to the study of parents, children, consumption, and lived experiences of social inequality."--Barrie Thorne, author of "Gender Play"
"Going well beyond the standard story of manipulative advertising that turns our kids into greedy little consumption addicts, "Longing and Belonging" provides a fascinating portrait of how children themselves come to translate Gameboys and Nikes into personal dignity and social membership. This smart and highly readable book offers multiple insights into the cultures of class, race, parenting, and childhood in an increasingly materialistic America."--Sharon Hays, author of "Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform"
"With "Longing and Belonging," Allison Pugh brings the study of children's consumer lives to a level of insight and clarity rarely encountered in theoften panic-stricken and sanctimonious discussions surrounding kids and commercial life. Skillfully navigating the social landscape where children, inequality and consumer culture intersect, Pugh combines ethnographic empathy with deft sociological analysis in a manner that invites the reader to enter children's lives and see the world from their perspectives. This work represents a break from the received wisdom about children and commercialism and surely will mark a transition to new and thoughtful approaches to thinking about how consumption matters in everyday life."--Daniel Thomas Cook, author of "The Commodification of Childhood"

The Noodle Narratives - The Global Rise of an Industrial Food into the Twenty-First Century (Paperback): Frederick Errington,... The Noodle Narratives - The Global Rise of an Industrial Food into the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
Frederick Errington, Deborah Gewertz, Tatsuro Fujikura
R744 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R106 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tasty, convenient, and cheap, instant noodles are one of the most remarkable industrial foods ever. Consumed around the world by millions, they appeal to young and old, affluent and impoverished alike. The authors examine the history, manufacturing, marketing, and consumption of instant noodles. By focusing on three specific markets, they reveal various ways in which these noodles enable diverse populations to manage their lives. The first market is in Japan, where instant noodles have facilitated a major transformation of post-war society, while undergoing a seemingly endless tweaking in flavors, toppings, and packaging in order to entice consumers. The second is in the United States, where instant noodles have become important to many groups including college students, their nostalgic parents, and prison inmates. The authors also take note of "heavy users," a category of the chronically hard-pressed targeted by U.S. purveyors. The third is in Papua New Guinea, where instant noodles arrived only recently and are providing cheap food options to the urban poor, all the while transforming them into aspiring consumers. Finally, this study examines the global "Big Food" industry. As one of the food system's singular achievements, the phenomenon of instant noodles provides insight into the pros and cons of global capitalist provisioning.

Complexity and Co-Evolution - Continuity and Change in Socio-Economic Systems (Hardcover): Elizabeth Garnsey, James McGlade Complexity and Co-Evolution - Continuity and Change in Socio-Economic Systems (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Garnsey, James McGlade
R3,001 Discovery Miles 30 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book applies ideas and methods from the complexity perspective to key concerns in the social sciences, exploring co-evolutionary processes that have not yet been addressed in the technical or popular literature on complexity. Authorities in a variety of fields - including evolutionary economics, innovation and regeneration studies, urban modelling and history - re-evaluate their disciplines within this framework. The book explores the complex dynamic processes that give rise to socio-economic change over space and time, with reference to empirical cases including the emergence of knowledge-intensive industries and decline of mature regions, the operation of innovative networks and the evolution of localities and cities. Sustainability is a persistent theme and the practicability of intervention is examined in the light of these perspectives. Specialists in disciplines that include economics, evolutionary theory, innovation, industrial manufacturing, technology change, and archaeology will find much to interest them in this book. In addition, the strong interdisciplinary emphasis of the book will attract a non-specialist audience interested in keeping abreast of current theoretical and methodological approaches through evidence-based and practical examples.

Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity (Paperback): Gideon Reuveni Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity (Paperback)
Gideon Reuveni
R851 Discovery Miles 8 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as capitalists have hindered research into the economic dimension of the Jewish past. The figure of the Jew as trader and financier dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But the economy has been central to Jewish life and the Jewish image in the world; Jews not only made money but spent money. This book is the first to investigate the intersection between consumption, identity, and Jewish history in Europe. It aims to examine the role and place of consumption within Jewish society and the ways consumerism generated and reinforced Jewish notions of belonging from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the new millennium. It shows how the advances of modernization and secularization in the modern period increased the importance of consumption in Jewish life, making it a significant factor in the process of redefining Jewish identity.

Consumption in China - How China's New Consumer Ideology is Shaping the Nation (Paperback): Yu Consumption in China - How China's New Consumer Ideology is Shaping the Nation (Paperback)
Yu
R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Consumption practices in China have been transformed at an unprecedented pace. Under Mao Zedong, the state controlled nearly all aspects of what people consumed, from everyday necessities to entertainment and the media; today, shoddy state-run stores characterized by a dearth of choices have made way for luxury malls and hypermarkets filled with a multitude of products. Consumption in China explores what it means to be a consumer in the world s fastest growing economy. LiAnne Yu provides a multi-faceted portrait of the impact of increased consumption on urban spaces, social status, lifestyles, identities, and freedom of expression. The book also examines what is unique and what is universal about how consumer practices in China have developed, investigating the factors that differentiate them from what has been observed among the already mature consumer markets. Behind the often staggering statistics about China are the very human stories that highlight the emotional and social triggers behind consumption. This engaging book is a valuable resource for students, scholars and business professionals interested in a deeper understanding of what motivates China s consumers, and what challenges they face as more aspects of everyday life become commoditized.

To Serve God and Wal-Mart - The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Paperback): Bethany Moreton To Serve God and Wal-Mart - The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Paperback)
Bethany Moreton
R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the decades after World War II, evangelical Christianity nourished America's devotion to free markets, free trade, and free enterprise. The history of Wal-Mart uncovers a complex network that united Sun Belt entrepreneurs, evangelical employees, Christian business students, overseas missionaries, and free-market activists. Through the stories of people linked by the world's largest corporation, Bethany Moreton shows how a Christian service ethos powered capitalism at home and abroad. While industrial America was built by and for the urban North, rural Southerners comprised much of the labor, management, and consumers in the postwar service sector that raised the Sun Belt to national influence. These newcomers to the economic stage put down the plough to take up the bar-code scanner without ever passing through the assembly line. Industrial culture had been urban, modernist, sometimes radical, often Catholic and Jewish, and self-consciously international. Post-industrial culture, in contrast, spoke of Jesus with a drawl and of unions with a sneer, sang about Momma and the flag, and preached salvation in this world and the next. This extraordinary biography of Wal-Mart's world shows how a Christian pro-business movement grew from the bottom up as well as the top down, bolstering an economic vision that sanctifies corporate globalization. The author has assigned her royalties and subsidiary earnings to Interfaith Worker Justice (www.iwj.org) and its local affiliate in Athens, GA, the Economic Justice Coalition (www.econjustice.org).

The Smartphone - Anatomy of an Industry (Paperback): Elizabeth Woyke The Smartphone - Anatomy of an Industry (Paperback)
Elizabeth Woyke
R515 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R143 (28%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We think we know everything about our smartphones. We use them constantly. We depend on them for every conceivable purpose. We are familiar with every inch of their compact frames. But there is more to the smartphone than meets the eye.
How have smartphones shaped the way we socialize and interact? Who tracks our actions, our preferences, our movements as recorded by our smartphones? These are just some of the questions that journalist Elizabeth Woyke answers in this muckraking expose of the $241 billion industry that produces more than 700 million devices each year.
In the tradition of "The Coffee Book," "The Sneaker Book," "Oil," and "Cigarettes," "The Smartphone" offers not only a step-by-step guide to how smartphones are designed and manufactured but also a bold exploration of the darker side of this massive industry, including the exploitation of labor, the disposal of electronic waste, and the underground networks that hack and smuggle smartphones.
Featuring interviews with key figures in the development of the smartphone and expert assessments of the industry's main players--Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung--"The Smartphone" is the perfect introduction to this most personal of gadgets. Your smartphone will never look the same again.

Generation M - Young Muslims Changing the World (Paperback): Shelina Janmohamed Generation M - Young Muslims Changing the World (Paperback)
Shelina Janmohamed 1
R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What does it mean to be young and Muslim today? There is a segment of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims that is more influential than any other, and will shape not just the future of Muslims, but also the world around them: meet 'Generation M'.From fashion magazines to social networking, the 'Mipsterz' to the 'Haloodies', halal internet dating to Muslim boy bands, Generation M are making their mark. Shelina Janmohamed, award-winning author and leading voice on Muslim youth, investigates this growing cultural phenomenon at a time when understanding the mindset of young Muslims is critical. With their belief in an identity encompassing both faith and modernity, Generation M are not only adapting to Western consumerism, but reclaiming it as their own.

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies (Hardcover): D. Cook The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies (Hardcover)
D. Cook
R3,713 Discovery Miles 37 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With entries detailing key concepts, persons, and approaches, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies provides definitive coverage of a field that has grown dramatically in scope and popularity around the world over the last two decades. * Includes over 200 A-Z entries varying in length from 500 to 5,000 words, with a list of suggested readings for each entry and cross-references, as well as a lexicon by category, and a timeline * Brings together the latest research and theories in the field from international contributors across a range of disciplines, from sociology, cultural studies, and advertising to anthropology, business, and consumer behavior * Available online with interactive cross-referencing links and powerful searching capabilities within the work and across Wiley s comprehensive online reference collection or as a single volume in print www.consumptionandconsumerstudies.com

Decadence of Industrial Democracies - Disbelief and Discredit V1 (Paperback): B Stiegler Decadence of Industrial Democracies - Disbelief and Discredit V1 (Paperback)
B Stiegler
R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Translated by DANIEL ROSS

Bernard Stiegler is one of the most original philosophers writing today about new technologies and their implications for social, political and personal life. Drawing on sources ranging from Plato and Marx to Freud, Heidegger and Derrida, he develops a highly original account of technology as grammatology, as a technics of writing that constitutes our experience of time, memory and desire, even of life itself. Society and our place within it are shaped by technical reproduction which can both expand and restrict the horizons and possibilities of human agency and experience.

In the three volumes of "Disbelief and Discredit" Stiegler argues that this process of technical reproduction has become dangerously divorced from its role in the constitution of human experience. Radically challenging the optimistic view of new technologies as facilitators of learning and progress, he argues new marketing techniques shortcircuit thought and disenfranchise consumers, programming them to seek short-term gratification. These practices of 'libidinal economics' have profound consequences for nature of human desire and they underpin the social and psychological malaise of contemporaty industrial society.

In this opening volume Stiegler argues that the industrial model implemented since the beginning of the twentieth century has become obsolete, leading capitalist democracies to an impasse. A sign of this impasse and of the decadence to which it leads is the banalization of consumers who become ensnared in a perpetual cycle of consumption. This is the new proletarianization of the technologically infused, hyper-industrial capitalism of today. It produces a society cut off from its past and its future, stultifying human development and turning democracy into a farce in which disbelief and discredit inevitably arise.

Farewell to Growth (Hardcover): S Latouche Farewell to Growth (Hardcover)
S Latouche
R1,308 Discovery Miles 13 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much - too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash. We are aware of what is happening and yet we refuse to take it fully into account. Above all we refuse to address the issue that lies at the heart of our problems - namely, the fact that our societies are based on an economy whose only goal is growth for growth's sake.

Serge Latouche argues that we need to rethink from the very foundations the idea that our societies should be based on growth. He offers a radical alternative - a society of 'de-growth'. De-growth is not the same thing as negative growth. We should be talking about 'a-growth', in the sense in which we speak of 'a-theism'. And we do indeed have to abandon a faith or religion - that of the economy, progress and development--and reject the irrational and quasi-idolatrous cult of growth for growth's sake.

While many realize that that the never-ending pursuit of growth is incompatible with a finite planet, we have yet to come to terms with the implications of this - the need to produce less and consume less. But if we do not change course, we are heading for an ecological and human disaster. There is still time to imagine, quite calmly, a system based upon a different logic, and to plan for a 'de-growth society'.

For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (Paperback): Jean Baudrillard For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (Paperback)
Jean Baudrillard
R448 R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What if the problems of modern society don't come from production, but rather consumption and the system of cultural signs? In this classic work from the defining intellectual of the postmodern, Jean Baudrillard, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign takes Marx's critique of political economy and its analysis of the commodity form as the starting point for an analysis of signs and their meaning in modern society. Influenced by Lefebvre's critique of everyday life, Barthes's semiology, and Situationism, Baudrillard analyses how objects are encoded within the system of signs and meanings that constitute contemporary media and consumer societies. Combining semiological studies and sociology of the consumer society, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign contains Baudrillard's most extensive engagement with Marxism and shows him at a critical juncture for the development of his thought.

The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Cait Lamberton, Derek D. Rucker, Stephen A.... The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Cait Lamberton, Derek D. Rucker, Stephen A. Spiller
R1,821 Discovery Miles 18 210 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In the last two years, consumers have experienced massive changes in consumption - whether due to shifts in habits; the changing information landscape; challenges to their identity, or new economic experiences of scarcity or abundance. What can we expect from these experiences? How are the world's leading thinkers applying both foundational knowledge and novel insights as we seek to understand consumer psychology in a constantly changing landscape? And how can informed readers both contribute to and evaluate our knowledge? This handbook offers a critical overview of both fundamental topics in consumer psychology and those that are of prominence in the contemporary marketplace, beginning with an examination of individual psychology and broadening to topics related to wider cultural and marketplace systems. The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology, 2nd edition, will act as a valuable guide for teachers and graduate and undergraduate students in psychology, marketing, management, economics, sociology, and anthropology.

The Consumer Society - Myths and Structures (Paperback, Revised edition): Jean Baudrillard The Consumer Society - Myths and Structures (Paperback, Revised edition)
Jean Baudrillard
R1,057 Discovery Miles 10 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Jean Baudrillard's classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. The book includes Baudrillard's most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure, and anomie in affluent society. A chapter on the body demonstrates Baudrillard's extraordinary prescience for flagging vital subjects in contemporary culture long before others. This English translation begins with a new introductory essay.

Consuming Citizenship - Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Paperback, New): Lisa Sun-Hee Park Consuming Citizenship - Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Paperback, New)
Lisa Sun-Hee Park
R651 R611 Discovery Miles 6 110 Save R40 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Consuming Citizenship investigates how Korean American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial immigrants demonstrate their social citizenship as Americans through conspicuous consumption. The American immigrant entrepreneur has played a central role in projecting the American ideology of meritocracy and equality. The children of these immigrants are seen as evidence of an open society. While it appears that these children have readily adapted to American culture, questions remain as to why second-generation Asian Americans feel compelled to convince others of their legitimacy and the way they go about asserting their citizenship status. Extending our understanding of such children beyond the traditional emphasis on assimilation, the author argues that their consumptive behavior is a significant expression of their paradoxical position as citizens who straddle the boundaries of social inclusion and exclusion.

Speculative Communities - Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World (Paperback): Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou Speculative Communities - Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World (Paperback)
Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In Speculative Communities, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou examines the ways that speculation has moved beyond financial markets to shape fundamental aspects of our social and political lives. As ordinary people make exceptional decisions, such as the American election of a populist demagogue or the British vote to leave the European Union, they are moving from time-honored and -tested practices of governance, toward the speculative promise of a new, more uncertain future. This book shows how even our methods of building community have shifted to the speculative realm as social media platforms enable and amplify our volatile wagers. For Komporozos-Athanasiou, "to speculate" means increasingly "to connect," to endorse the unknown pre-emptively, and often daringly, as a means of social survival. Grappling with the question of how more uncertainty can lead to its full-throated embrace rather than dissent, Speculative Communities shows how finance has become the model for society writ large. As Komporozos-Athanasiou argues, virtual marketplaces, new social media, and dating apps bring finance's opaque infrastructures into the most intimate realms of our lives, leading to a new type of speculative imagination across economy, culture, and society.

The Real Toy Story - Inside the Ruthless Battle for Britain's Youngest Consumers (Paperback): Eric Clark The Real Toy Story - Inside the Ruthless Battle for Britain's Youngest Consumers (Paperback)
Eric Clark
R478 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R91 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Toys - from teddy bears to Barbie dolls to train sets - define our image of childhood innocence. But the truth is that toys represent a $21 billion a year industry, and with so much money at stake, the toy business is anything but child's play. In The Real Toy Story, investigative journalist Eric Clark exposes the startling truths behind Britain's favourite toys. Drawing on interviews with over 200 industry insiders, Clark names and shames the corporations spending millions on research into the best way to manipulate their target audience while manufacturing products in China under virtual slave labour conditions. In a world of cut-throat competition and cold-blooded marketing, toy companies are increasingly willing to sacrifice our children in the rush for profits. And as more children forsake cuddly play things for Ipods and cell phones, companies are using even more extreme tactics- unashamedly using sex and violence to sell dolls and action men to children as young as three - to make sure that their toy is the one that children want to have. The Real Toy Story is essential reading for the millions of adults who care about the toys they choose for the children in their lives.

The Ethical Consumer (Hardcover): Rob Harrison, Terry Newholm, Deirdre Shaw The Ethical Consumer (Hardcover)
Rob Harrison, Terry Newholm, Deirdre Shaw
R4,163 Discovery Miles 41 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is not simply the best book on the remarkable phenomenon of today's ethical consumer. It is a gift of advice and insight, from the people that know best, to the cause of tomorrow. Many of the writers deserve the plaudits of being pioneers of a new consumer movement. These are the issues of our time' - "Ed Mayo, Chief Executive of the UK's National Consumer Council (NCe

"

Who are ethical consumers and why are they on the rise? Leading the way towards answering this question, The Ethical Consumer is an indispensable introduction to the subject. Exploring areas like boycotts and fair trade projects, it gathers together the diverse experiences of scholars, campaigners and business practitioners from the international community.

The chapters in this book explore:

- ethical consumer behaviours, motivation and narratives

- the social, political and theoretical contexts in which ethical consumers operate

- the responsibilities of businesses and the effectiveness of ethical consumer actions

Contributions are informed by a broad range of research methods, from case studies, focus groups to surveys and interviews.

The text is of interest to business related graduates, undergraduates and their tutors on courses relating to consumption. It will also be relevant to academics in other disciplines, as well as to politicians, producers, practitioners, campaigners and not least consumers.

Consumer Data Research (Paperback): Paul A. Longley, Alex Singleton, James Cheshire Consumer Data Research (Paperback)
Paul A. Longley, Alex Singleton, James Cheshire
R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Fashion in Multiple Chinas - Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape (Paperback): Wessie Ling, Simona Segre Reinach Fashion in Multiple Chinas - Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape (Paperback)
Wessie Ling, Simona Segre Reinach
R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The transformation of China from a major site for clothing manufacture to an intensely fashion consuming society has been widely documented. Less has been written about the making of Chinese fashion. In Fashion in Multiple Chinas, expert authors explore how a multitude of Chinese fashions operate across the widespread, fragmented and diffused Chinese diaspora. They challenge the idea of Chinese nationalism as 'one nation', as well as of China as a single reality, revealing the realities of Chinese fashion as diverse and comprising multiple practices. They also demonstrate how the making of Chinese fashion is composed of numerous layers, often involving a web of global entanglements between manufacturing and circulation, retailing and branding. Chapters cover the mechanics of the PRC fashion industry, the creative economy of Chinese fashion, its retail and branding, and the cultural identity of Chinese fashion from the diasporas comprising the transglobal landscape of fashion production.

The Future of Food - A New Recipe for the Food Sector (Hardcover): Jorg Snoeck, Stefan Rompaey The Future of Food - A New Recipe for the Food Sector (Hardcover)
Jorg Snoeck, Stefan Rompaey
R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How can we continue to feed a growing world population in a healthy and sustainable manner? Will we be able to make meals from a 3D printer? What will the role of supermarkets be in the years ahead? This timely book by two experienced retail professionals addresses the future of food, with an insightful overview of trends ranging from urban agriculture to sea farms, cultured meat to applied artificial intelligence, and hybrid supermarkets to new digital platform models.

Priceless - The Hidden Psychology of Value (Paperback): William Poundstone Priceless - The Hidden Psychology of Value (Paperback)
William Poundstone
R375 R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Save R67 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Prada stores carry a few obscenely expensive items in order to boost sales for everything else (which look like bargains in comparison). People used to download music for free, then Steve Jobs convinced them to pay. How? By charging 99 cents. That price has a hypnotic effect: the profit margin of the 99 Cents Only store is twice that of Wal-Mart. Why do text messages cost money, while e-mails are free? Why do jars of peanut butter keep getting smaller in order to keep the price the “same”? The answer is simple: prices are a collective hallucination. In "Priceless," the bestselling author William Poundstone reveals the hidden psychology of value. In psychological experiments, people are unable to estimate “fair” prices accurately and are strongly influenced by the unconscious, irrational, and politically incorrect. It hasn’t taken long for marketers to apply these findings. “Price consultants” advise retailers on how to convince consumers to pay more for less, and negotiation coaches offer similar advice for businesspeople cutting deals. The new psychology of price dictates the design of price tags, menus, rebates, “sale” ads, cell phone plans, supermarket aisles, real estate offers, wage packages, tort demands, and corporate buyouts. Prices are the most pervasive hidden persuaders of all. Rooted in the emerging field of behavioral decision theory, "Priceless" should prove indispensable to anyone who negotiates.

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