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1	Born to Buy more books like this by Juliet B Schor add to wishlist Ads targeted at kids are virtually everywhere - in classrooms and textbooks, on the Internet, even at Girl Scout meetings, slumber parties, and the playground. Product placement and other innovations have introduced more subtle advertising to movies and television. Drawing on her own survey research and unprecedented access to the advertising ... see all copies from $2.19! new only from $4.36! \| signed copies \| SVS
2	The German Ideology more books like this by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels add to wishlist This edition makes easily accessible the most important parts of Marx's and Engels's major early philosophical work, "The German Ideology", a text of key importance for students. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.44! \| first editions
3	The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World more books like this by Owen Flanagan add to wishlist A noted philosopher proposes a naturalistic (rather than supernaturalistic) way to solve the "really hard problem": how to live in a meaningful way - how to live a life that really matters - even as a finite material being living in a material world.If consciousness is "the hard problem" in mind science - explaining how the amazing private world ... see all copies from $8.29! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity more books like this by Slavoj Zizek, Slavoj A1/2ia3/4ek add to wishlist In this volume Slavoj Zizek offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today's spirituality - New Age gnosticism and deconstructionist-Levinasian Judaism - and then tries to redeem the "materialist" kernel of Christianity. His reading ... see all copies from $10.49! new only from $11.70!
5	Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole more books like this by Benjamin R Barber add to wishlist "Consumed" offers a portrait of how adults are infantilised in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. Driven by a frantic imperative to sell, consumer capitalism specialises today in the manufacture not of goods but of needs. This provocative culmination of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The High Price of Materialism more books like this by Tim Kasser add to wishlist In this volume, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health. Other writers have shown that once we have sufficient food, shelter, and clothing, further material gains do little to improve our well-being. Kasser goes beyond these ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $11.09! \| first editions
7	Critique of dialectical reason, theory of practical ensembles more books like this by Jean Paul Sartre add to wishlist At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. The result was the Critique of Dialectical Reason, an intellectual masterpiece of the twentieth century, now republished in two volumes with major original introductions by Fredric Jameson. In it, Sartre set out the ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $25.60! \| first editions
8	Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism more books like this by Professor James B Twitchell add to wishlist This critique of marketing and advertising chronicles America's preoccupation with materialism. Arguing that marketing firms at the end of the '90s hold the same power as the Catholic Church did during the Renaissance, the author argues that celebrity spokespersons such as Michael Jordon act as marketing "priests," while television commercials ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.85! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The ideology of power and the power of ideology more books like this by Professor Goran Therborn add to wishlist Few concepts have been so intensely discussed or so widely sponsored as that of 'ideology'. Whether read as the expression of social classes or attributed a material independence and efficacy, whether devalued as false and non-scientific or asserted as the necessary element of social practice, 'ideology' has become an ineluctable conceptual ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $14.18! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture more books like this by Juliet B Schor add to wishlist Over the last fifteen years children's spending power has mushroomed to an estimated USD30 billion in direct purchases and another USD600 billion of influence over parental purchases. Advertising and marketing has exploded alongside expenditures and now totals more than USD12 billion a year. Ads targeted at children are virtually everywhere - in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Culture and practical reason more books like this by Marshall David Sahlins add to wishlist "The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter ... see all copies from $5.25! new only from $11.84!
12 view cover	Materialism and empirio-criticism, critical comments on a reactionary philosophy more books like this by Vladimir Ilch Lenin add to wishlist see all copies from $6.95! new only from $35.86! \| SVS
13 view cover	Critique of Dialectical Reason more books like this by Jean-Paul Sartre, Quintin Hoare (Translator) add to wishlist Sartre's fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought, an intellectual masterpiece of the twentieth century with original introduction by Fredric Jameson. A theory of history, an analysis of class struggle and a philosophy of action, this work is an intellectual masterpiece of the twentieth century, republished in two volumes ... see all copies from $8.50!
14	Anti-Duhring: Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science more books like this by Friedrich Engels add to wishlist see all copies from $2.58! first editions
15 view cover	Toy Medium more books like this by Daniel Newton Tiffany add to wishlist What begins with an unlikely collection of unrelated phenomena - mechanical dolls, weather, atoms, lyric poetry - blossoms in the course of "Toy Medium" into a meditation on one of Western philosophy's biggest puzzles: the relation of mind and matter. What is the role of the imagination in defining material substance? In a study of the poetics ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $4.62! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Dematerializing: Taming the Power of Possessions more books like this by Jane Hammerslough add to wishlist An insightful look at the misplaced faith we place in things, and meaningful advice on achieving material and emotional well-being. Can the perfect new couch in your family room make for great times with your family? Does a diamond that costs two months' salary mean that love will last forever? In this era of high expectations and "low monthly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back more books like this by Douglas Rushkoff add to wishlist In this captivating book, cultural theorist Rushkoff reveals how corporations have come to dominate all aspects of life--including our inner lives--and what to do about it. In tracing the roots of corporatism from the Renaissance to today, Rushkoff reveals the way it supplanted social interaction and local commerce and came to be regarded as a pre ... see all copies from $15.98! new only from $15.98! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times more books like this by Rene? Guenon add to wishlist The Reign of Quantity gives a concise but comprehensive view of the present state of affairs in the world, as it appears from the point of view of the 'ancient wisdom', formerly common both to the East and to the West, but now almost entirely lost sight of. The author indicates with his fabled clarity and directness the precise nature of the ... see all copies from $13.94! new only from $17.66! \| SVS
19 view cover	A Purse-Driven Christmas: So, What Did You Get Me? more books like this by Anita Renfroe add to wishlist Renfroe presents a light-hearted look at the fun, challenges, and just plain insanity of the most wonderful time of the year. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50!
20 view cover	Search for a Method more books like this by Jean Paul Sarte, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E Barnes (Translator) add to wishlist 'Search for a Method' is a separate and introductory essay published together with 'Critique of Dialectical Reason'. It is the search for a method by which the existentialist Marxist may hope to understand both individual persons and history. see all copies from $2.20! new only from $11.78! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism more books like this by James O'Connor, PH.D. (Editor) add to wishlist Economic growth since the Industrial Revolution has been achieved at great cost both to the natural environment and to the autonomy of communities. What can a Marxist perspective contribute to understanding this disturbing legacy, and mitigating its impact on future generations? Social theorist James O'Connor demonstrates how the policies and ... see all copies from $15.45! new only from $29.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Rolling Away the Stone: Mary Baker Eddy's Challenge to Materialism more books like this by Stephen Gottschalk add to wishlist "Rolling Away the Stone" is a richly detailed account of the last two decades of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, a major religious thinker whose character and achievement are just beginning to be understood. This is the first book-length discussion of Eddy to make full use of the resources of the Mary Baker Eddy Collection in Boston. It focuses on ... see all copies from $19.99! new only from $31.50! \| SVS
23 view cover	Late Marxism: Adorno or the Persistence of the Dialectic more books like this by Professor Fredric Jameson add to wishlist Theodor Adorno is widely recognized as one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century, as a foremost cultural critic and philosopher, and one of the most important figures in the Frankfurt School and Western Marxism more generally. And yet, Adorno's reputation has suffered from accusations about his alleged pessimism and, even worse, from ... see all copies from $7.29! new only from $8.15! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Costs of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life more books like this by Barry Schwartz add to wishlist This text argues that market freedom is undermining much that is good in life and offers ways to put an end to this erosion. People value their freedom, family, friends, work, education, health and leisure - the things that are regarded as the best things in life. However, the pressure to satisfy both the "bottom line" and the seemingly insatiable ... see all copies from $3.60! new only from $29.29! \| SVS
25	Subject to History: Ideology, Class, Gender more books like this by David Simpson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| first editions

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