Culture Jam: How To Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must
10 best books like Culture Jam: How To Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must (Kalle Lasn): The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year, Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich, The Simple Living Guide, Morvern Callar, The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real, Coercion: Why We Listen to What "they" Say, The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic, The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
| Author | Naomi Klein |
| ISBN | 0805079831 |
In her ground-breaking reporting from Iraq, Naomi Klein exposed how the trauma of invasion was being exploited to remake the country in the interest of foreign corporations. She called it "disaster capitalism." Covering Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, and New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed...
Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
| Author | Carlo Levi |
| ISBN | 0374530092 |
It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy's Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh...
| Author | Duane Elgin |
| ISBN | 0688121195 |
When Voluntary Simplicity was first published in 1981, it quickly became recognized as a powerful and visionary work in the emerging dialogue over sustainable ways of living. Now, more than ten years later and with many of the planet's environmental stresses having become more urgent than ever, Duane...
| Author | Janet Luhrs |
| ISBN | 0553067966 |
Whether you are looking at small solutions for cutting down the stress in your life or taking the big leap toward the simpler life, this book can be your guide. Janet Luhrs, the nationally recognized founder and editor of the Simple Living Journal, brings together strategies, inspiration, resources,...
Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What...
The Matrix conveys the horror of a false world made of nothing but perceptions. Based on the premise that reality is a dream controlled by malevolent forces, it is one of the most overtly philosophical movies ever to come out of Hollywood. These thought-provoking essays by the same team of young philosophers...
Noted media pundit and author of Playing the Future Douglas Rushkoff gives a devastating critique of the influence techniques behind our culture of rampant consumerism. With a skilled analysis of how experts in the fields of marketing, advertising, retail atmospherics, and hand-selling attempt...
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0195092627 |
Finally! I began reading this book quite a while ago and am happy to report that I've finished. Overall, I was curious to see the evolution of short story writing in America from its dawning to the late 1980's. I have to admit, I didn't begin to enjoy the stories until I read the ones that came after the Civil...
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
| Author | John De Graaf |
| ISBN | 1576753573 |
affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.
We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. Now in its third edition, this book...
The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need
| Author | Juliet B. Schor |
| ISBN | 0060977582 |
The Overspent American explores why so many of us feel materially dissatisfied, why we work staggeringly long hours and yet walk around with ever-present mental "wish lists" of things to buy or get, and why Americans save less than virtually anyone in the world. Unlike many experts, Harvard economist...
