The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great...
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. [Signature]Reviewed by Nina PlanckMichael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and,...
Amazon.com There was a time, for a handful of peppercorns, you could have someone killed. Throw in a nutmeg or two, you could probably watch. There was a time when grown men sat around and thought of nothing but black pepper. How to get it. How to get more. How to control the entire trade in pepper...
The Theory of the Leisure Class (Dover Thrift Editions)
Classic of economic and social theory offers a satiric examination of the hollowness and falsity suggested by the term "conspicuous consumption" (coined by Veblen), exposing the emptiness of many cherished standards of taste, education, dress, and culture.
Those top-drawer trendies from the 1980 Official Preppy Handbook have grown older and richer; it's time now to tweak the lifestyles of the über-rich, people Tennant, one-time columnist for the New York Post's "Page Six" gossip column and cofounder of Radar magazine, knows...
Like everyone in the world, I remember adolescence clearly -- and mostly with horror. It’s not the moments of humiliation that haunt me in the middle of the night, but piercing memories of mistakes I made: errors in judgment, ethical missteps, selfish unkindness. I could have been a case study...
A green wallet made out of the cover of BITCH magazine, laminated with tape and machine sewn. This wallet will not win you any beauty contests. It will not be featured in Vogue and it will not match your outfit. However, it will get you lots of stares, comments, inquiries, and maybe even a few phone...
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005 Original Broadway Cast)
With this giddily entertaining show, David Yazbek confirms that The Full Monty wasn't a fluke--few on Broadway can equal his melodic verve and lyrical cleverness. Based on the 1988 movie of the same name, the show deals with a pair of con artists swindling rich women on the French Riviera....
The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguins Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of historys most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmakers art. Offering great literature in...
byAMT’s 9mm Diamond Ring is a playful twist on a design classic: the Tiffany-setting diamond engagement ring. Both a symbol of marital bliss and an emblem of our status-obsessed culture, the thick and solid ring is a sly commentary on our culture’s competitive nature when it comes to...
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. [Signature]Reviewed by Nina PlanckMichael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and,...
Set in a future world characterized by the conspicuous consumption of all types of pleasures, the anime series SPEED GRAPHER follows former war-photographer Saiga into an underground world of mysterious power. After stumbling upon a mysterious ritual at the exclusive Roppongi Club, Saiga has...
Industry Reviews "...A satire of conspicuous consumption..." Variety - p.34 - Dennis Harvey "...An ingenious adaptation....Excellent direction and a set of self-effacing performances..." Sight and Sound - p.42 - Tony Rayns "...A mordantly funny and agreeably blatant satire...
"We live in what may be the most consumer-oriented society in history. . . .Once a purely utilitarian chore, shopping has been elevated to the status of a national passion."--Juliet B. Schor, The Overworked American. A unique and definitive reader on our "national...
Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess is a serious examination of the long-term costs associated with our society's ever-accelerating spiral of conspicuous consumption, followed by a far-reaching remedy that will intrigue anyone concerned with related fiscal issues. Robert...
This revisionist take on one of history’s most colorful -- and perhaps unjustly notorious -- monarchs reunites Virgin Suicides writer-director Sofia Coppola and star Kirsten Dunst. Embodying France’s young, ultimately doomed queen, Dunst transforms Marie into a living, breathing human...
Money Can Buy Happiness: How to Spend to Get the Life You Want
YOU CAN AFFORD TO BE HAPPY MP Dunleavey, personal finance columnist for the New York Times and creator of the award-winning “Women in Red” column on MSN Money, presents a radical new plan for attaining happiness—and it doesn’t involve taking money out of the equation. The...
Eclectic thinkers, brought together by the bestselling author of City of Quartz, meditate on future worlds being created by unfettered capitalism."Not content with existing offshore tax shelters, multi-millionaires and property developers have aspired to build their own....To defeat the...
It takes a true passion for life to follow an intuition and create something entirely new. If it hasn't been done before, most people think it simply can't be done. Eva Jeanbart Lorenzotti is not most people. Born and raised in Switzerland, she possesses a deep familiarity with European...
The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less [Hardcover]
How do you define the good life? For many, success is measured not by health and happiness but by financial wealth. But such a worldview overlooks the important things in life: personal contentment, family time, spirituality, and the health of the planet and those living on it. A preoccupation with...
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy (Paperback)
Amazon.com How can you join the ranks of America's wealthy (defined as people whose net worth is over one million dollars)? It's easy, say doctors Stanley and Danko, who have spent the last 20 years interviewing members of this elite club: you just have to follow seven simple rules. The...
Amazon.com This brilliantly ironic satire is set in a future world where television and computers are connected directly into people's brains when they are babies. The result is a chillingly recognizable consumer society where empty-headed kids are driven by fashion and shopping and the avid...
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. [Signature]Reviewed by Nina PlanckMichael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and,...
Laura Sweet may be the Internet's Oprah Winfrey -- for objects shaped like guns, that is. Just as millions look to the billionaire talk show host for tips on books, health and beauty, hundreds turn to Sweet's "gun-shaped stuff" page on www.thisnext.com for hair dryers, television...
t may be 30 years since the Sex Pistols first gobbed in the face of the UK music scene, but nothing, it seems, is sacred. For just as the young upstarts hijacked the Queen's Jubilee for their own nefarious purposes, the Establishment stands accused of ruining punk's birthday party by turning...
It was the era of Conspicuous Consumption, when Caroline Astor and "The 400" set the mark of sophistication for the entire nation. Care to participate? You'll need these de rigueur accents: graceful, stretch-velvet fingerless gloves to accentuate each graceful gesture (and display...
We are surrounded by myriad brands, flashing neon signs, billboards, labels on our heads, feet and bodies, and the objects we hold in our hands. But what happens when one man tries to live without them? I am addicted to brands. For as long as I can remember, they have occupied my thoughts during the...
D:Scribe is a digital fountain pen that allows users to send SMS and email messages from paper. Just write out the message and circle the person’s name to send. This does away with a keypad and allows you to focus on communicating in a more personal way from anywhere as long as you have a...
This handsome capital is being energized by an influx of tourists, expatriates and returning Argentine émigrés, and its glamorous night life and conspicuous consumption have reached a fever pitch.
Now is as good of time as ever to grow your own food. The bad economy has me feeling like anyone with the ability and resources who is currently un- or even under-employed might want to pretend we are in an agricultural society rather than an industrial one. Lower incomes bring about the need to...
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) (Paperback)
Michael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. Accomplished gardeners, the Kingsolver clan grow a...
Living It Up: America's Love Affair with Luxury (Paperback)
From Publishers Weekly As the author of works on advertising, materialism and modern culture, University of Florida professor Twitchell should have been the most immune to acquisitive desire while doing research in posh Rodeo Drive and Madison Avenue stores. That he was momentarily struck with...
Amazon.com: London Style: Books: Jane Edwards,Angelika Taschen
Artsy black & white pics show London street scenes in the first (small) section. Then the large sections of excellent color photography illustrate a variety of interiors, then decorating details. Most of the space is given to the pictorial, as befits a book on how things look; what little...
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Artsy black & white pics show London street scenes in the first (small) section. Then the large sections of excellent color photography illustrate a variety of interiors, then decorating details. Most of the space is given to the pictorial, as befits a book on how things look; what little...
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