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Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev

2 reviews

Duke University Press, 1999

A fascinating view on post-Soviet Russia
This book has the rare quality of being a classroom text as well as a report. Today's Russia. Pyramid schemes, religion, rave parties,rock music, detective stories, cinema, pets, porn, graffiti, tattooing... the carnival of crazy New Russia to be read overnight. A shock.

Consuming Kids: Protecting Our Children from the Onslaught of Marketing & Advertising

3 reviews
Susan Linn

Anchor, 2005

Excellent
This book has really helped us to open our eyes and look at our current culture and how it might impact our new son. It covers media and mass marketing and how unscrupulous marketing to children has become. Before I read this I didn't understand just how insidious some of the marketing is and I would just mark parents who complained about it as "a little crazy or too strict". I know of ...

Consuming Religion: Christian Faith And Practice in a Consumer Culture

2 reviews
Vincent J. Miller

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005

Essential Reading
This is a superb book. Whether you are a person of Christian faith, or faith of another tradition, or simply someone interested in religion, this book will help you to think more deeply about spirituality and the life of the faith community in the throes of our culture of commodification. Miller employs critical theory, cultural analysis, anthropology, and sociology to awaken us to the manner in ...

Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church

6 reviews
Paul Louis Metzger

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007

Consuming or being Consumed?
The title does raise some questions...that is if you think about more than what color curtains should decorate your new sitting room. In a world of consumption of material goods that either make us fat or make our creditors fat, Metzger calls us to a new paradigm of consumption and/or a new paradigm of actually being consumed. There are so few books that will challenge where we are as a ...

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (Bk Currents)

96 reviews
John de Graaf, David Wann, ...

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005

Changed my life for the better (through simplication)
This book quite literally changed my life in a great way. Upon reading the introductory chapters, it was clear to me that I surely had Affluenza. Continuing through the book, I realized how dire it was that our whole country was "infected" and how deeply. Finally, it offered real solutions to combating the disease. I know the analogy of Affluenza as a disease seems a little cheesy, but it ...

Chocolate: The Consuming Passion

13 reviews
Sandra Boynton

Workman Publishing Company, 1982

Still a treat twenty years after it was published!
I have always had a soft spot for anything Sandra Boynton does, but "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion" is probably my favorite of her books. I have bought it for more chocolate-loving friends than I can count and they have all been thrilled with it. Boynton deftly blends together her signature cartoon animals (who for the most part try to look dignified in less than dignified ...

All Consuming Images: The Politics Of Style In Contemporary Culture

12 reviews
Stuart Ewen

Basic Books, 1990

Four and a half -- Groundbreaking Examination of Consumer Culture
This book is eye-opening and will cause you to question the extent to which your needs are manipulated by advertising and transformed into desires. Pretty dense research and dissection of the power of visual images to create and sustain a market economy. A perfect complement to the BBC documentary series by Adam Curtis, A Century of the Self.

An All-Consuming Century

6 reviews
Gary Cross

Columbia University Press, 2002

Consumerism Hurts
Anybody who thinks we do not live in a consumer society has either slept for the past fifty years or has something wrong with their heads. What many people do not realize is how ingratiating consumerism is, how it worms its invidious head into every facet of our existence. It is getting to the point where it seems we exist solely as receptacles for useless products. This is where Gary Cross's ...

Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life

31 reviews
Michael Lee West

Avon A, 2000

Feast for the Famished Southern or otherwise
Fair warning! If you are on a diet or trying to lose weight, this book is lethal. My stars, what a feast of food memoirs complete with rich and tempting recipes! And how I would love some of that coconut cake that emerges from an eight day recipe. Obviously, West knows her family characters and attaches them to their noted eccentricities and manna. And what colorful, yea memorable, folks ...

Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society

3 reviews
Beth A. Conklin

University of Texas Press, 2001

A Grand Text and Appropriate for Our Age
This book is one of the best, I own on the subject matter. Very well done and extreemely detailed. I bought a second copy and gave it away as a Christmas gift this year, at my company Christmas party. It was a great success. Everyone wanted it. I'm glad Matt got to keep it. I must say that very few texts on this subject are as well done as Conklin's. I highly recomend it to anyone interested ...

A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South (Mercer University ...

1 review
Eugene D. Genovese

University of Georgia Press, 1998

Excellent source about the southern viewpoint of slavery
There are innumerable controversies between the vast schools of thought in American history. Perhaps one of the largest is that of slavery in the United States. Throughout their years of public education, students are taught that slavery is immoral and wrong. Eugene Genovese, on the other hand, shows the side that students are not often taught. He tells of the reasons why slavery was so ...

Consuming Love: Commitment, Friendship and Passion, What It Means to Be Connected to God's Heart

3 reviews
Steve Harrison

Destiny Image, 2007

Great man of God
Steve was a professor of mine at Bethany College of Missions and I know him to be a man of God with a genuine passion for the urban poor. My wife just finished the book and couldn't say enough about it.

Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat

1 review
David Bell

Routledge, 1997

From local to global food
Consuming Geographies probably will be one of the best books on how food constructs our social life. Beardsworth and Keil explain th main role of food and identity in different social scenarios. The introduction of the book gives the state of the art if someone is trying to study food and identity. Finally, the bibliography can give good references for those interested in foodways.

Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges (Cultures of ...
John Brewer, Frank Trentmann

Berg Publishers, 2006

Drawing on case studies from around the world, a trans-national perspective allows the authors to look at the genealogy of the modern consumer and the development of consumer cultures, from the porcelain trade and consumption in Britain and China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to post Second World War developments in America and Japan, and the contemporary consumer politics of cosmopolitan citizenship.

Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood

12 reviews
Susan Linn

New Press, 2004

The branding of children
Parents, grandparents, teachers, caretakers, and anyone who cares about children and the future of our nation, must read Susan Linn's, Consuming Kids, and take action. At it's core, Consuming Kids, examines the negative affects that marketing and advertising have on children. The disturbing fact is that marketing to children is a booming industry that is essentially profiting from programming ...

Consuming Faith: Integrating Who We Are with What We Buy

2 reviews
Tom Beaudoin

Sheed & Ward, 2007

Insightful and thought provoking
Beaudoin's presentation of his theology of consumption and spirituality is very accessible to people new to the concepts. His non-moralizing approach is inspirational rather than guilt-inducing. His humor is delightful. Although I personally do not come from a Christian tradition, I find this book applicable to my own life. I recommend this book to anyone who is curious about global economics.

Consuming Passions: Help for Compulsive Shoppers

4 reviews
Ellen Mohr Catalano, Nina Sonenberg

New Harbinger Publications, 1993

Consuming Passions
I have struggled with Compulsive shopping for 15 years and never knew why. This book explained why I do it. I believe knowing why you do a behavior is half the battle of overcoming it. I highly recommend this book!

Consuming Life

1 review
Zygmunt Bauman

Polity, 2007

One of the most insightful thinkers of our time
"Consuming Life" by Zygmunt Bauman is a masterful analysis of the commodification of the individual in "liquid modern" (postmodern) society. The powers of observation displayed by the octogenarian author are without peer; Mr. Bauman seems to effortlessly assess myriad facets of contemporary culture while drawing upon a deep theoretical and practical knowledge base of philosophy, economics, ...

Consuming the Caribbean: From Arwaks to Zombies (International Library of Sociology)

2 reviews
Mimi Sheller

Routledge, 2003

Very academic but throughtful and sophisticated
This book breaks new ground by asking how the Caribbean has been created as an imaginary place, a commoditized image in he minds of the outside world, over the centuries since the islands were first plundered and looted by European adventurers. The paradox is that a part of the world which has been the scene of horrible and brutal genocide, followed by centuries of slavery and colonial ...

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