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Cinderella Ate My Daughter
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture© 2012 Peggy Orenstein260 pages When did every little girl become a princess to be bedecked in pink and fawned over? Such is the question posed by … Continue reading
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Tagged adolescence, Alistair Horne, children, Disney, Eric Schlosser, goods/services, marketing, marriage and family, media, parenting, sexuality, Society and Culture, the Internet, women, women's studies
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Cheap
Cheap: the High Cost of Discount Culture © 2009 Ellen Ruppel Shell 296 pages A few weeks ago I read Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, which is a critical history of the 20th-century trend in business toward cheaper … Continue reading
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Tagged critical history, economics, environmentalism, goods/services, money, social criticism, Society and Culture
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So Sexy So Soon
So Sexy So Soon: the New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids© 2008 Diane E. Levine, Jean Kilbourne226 pages For me, the filthiest show on television is Toddlers and Tiaras. Perhaps I’m old-fashioned: I’m generally … Continue reading
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Tagged adolescence, Alistair Horne, children, goods/services, marketing, marriage and family, media, parenting, sexuality, social criticism, Society and Culture
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Consuming Kids
Consuming Kids: the Hostile Takeover of Childhood© 2004 Susan Linn288 pages To some, children are the joy of our lives; a refreshing source of curiosity, energy, youth, and joy. To others, they are nothing but grist for the mill. In … Continue reading
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Tagged adolescence, Alistair Horne, children, goods/services, marketing, marriage and family, media, parenting, sexuality, social criticism, Society and Culture
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A History of the World in Six Glasses
A History of the World in Six Glasses© 2006 Tom Standage311 pages A toast to human enterprise! Pick your poison — beer, wine, rum, tea, coffee, or Coca-Cola. Three are alcoholic, three are caffienated: all were the stuff of empires, … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American Revolution, ancient world, Britain, China, classical world, Egypt, food, food and drink, goods/services, Greece, history, Rome, social history
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The Wal-Mart Effect
The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works, and How It’s Transforming the American Economy © 2006 Charles Fishman 352 pages In only a little over fifty years, Wal-Mart has grown from a small five-and-dime store in … Continue reading
Reefer Madness
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market310 pages© 2003 Eric Schlosser What do pornography, marijuana, and migrant labor have in common? They’re all factors in an underground economy, a vast web of cash-heavy transactions barred … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, economics, Eric Schlosser, goods/services, poverty, sexuality
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The Coffee Trader
The Coffee Trader© 2003 David Liss386 pages I never intended to return to David Liss so soon. No doubt, A Conspiracy of Paper was phenomenal — but I have two Bernard Cornwell novels just awaiting to be read! There’s something compelling … Continue reading
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Tagged David Liss, goods/services, historical fiction, mystery, Netherlands, thriller
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Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation: the Dark Side of the All-American Meal© 2001 Eric Schlosser362 pages I underestimated Fast Food Nation. I’d expected a heated attack on the subject from a nutritional standpoint, but Eric Schlosser’s history and overview of fast food’s … Continue reading
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Tagged critical history, Eric Schlosser, food, food and drink, goods/services, marketing, nutrition, social criticism, Society and Culture
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Salt
Salt: A World History© 2003 Mark Kurlansky498 pages Last Autumn, my doctor advised me to start watching the amount of salt in my diet, and so I did. That this was a concern surprised me: I was never one to … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, China, economics, Egypt, food, food and drink, goods/services, history, Rome
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