Consumer Culture

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    • The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
    • By: Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life....

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    • The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
    • By: Daniel H. Pink
    • Narrated by: Daniel H. Pink
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,951 ratings
    • Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money - the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others)....

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    • Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
    • By: Nick Bilton
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 09-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour? Listen to find out more....

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    • The High Cost of Discount Culture
    • By: Ellen Ruppel Shell
    • Narrated by: Lorna Raver
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt---and almost everywhere in between---America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price....

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    • How to Stop Spending, Start Creating, and Build a Life That Costs Less
    • By: Southerland Publishing
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-25
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • In a world engineered to make you consume, The Anti-Consumer’s Playbook offers a different path—one built on clarity, control, and quiet ...

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    • The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else
    • By: Steve Lohr
    • Narrated by: Steve Lohr
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Steve Lohr, a technology reporter for the New York Times, chronicles the rise of Big Data, addressing cutting-edge business strategies....

    $17.09 or free with 30-day trial

    • How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist
    • By: Sally Hogshead
    • Narrated by: Sally Hogshead
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 372 ratings
    • A newly revised and updated edition of the influential guide that explores one of the most powerful ways to attract attention and influence behavior....

    $21.59 or free with 30-day trial

    • Escape Consumer Culture and Thrive with Less
    • By: Emerson Rowe
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-25
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Break Free from Consumer Overload and Thrive with Less Are you tired of endless shopping hauls, cluttered spaces, and the constant pressure to buy ...

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    • The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
    • By: Dan Ariely
    • Narrated by: Simon Jones
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,667 ratings
    • Dan Ariely exposes the surprising negative and positive effects irrationality can have on our lives....

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    • How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything
    • By: Michael Saylor
    • Narrated by: LJ Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • The Mobile Wave argues that the changes brought by mobile computing are so big and widespread that it’s impossible for us to see it all, even though we are all immersed in it....

    $19.95 or free with 30-day trial

    • The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
    • By: Tim Wu
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 734 ratings
    • From Tim Wu comes a revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting", and its transformative effect on our society and our selves....

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    • How Brooks Outpaced Goliath Competitors to Lead the Pack
    • By: Jim Weber, Warren Buffett - foreword
    • Narrated by: James Weber
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • Running with Purpose is a highly engaging listen with insights, inspirational stories, and tangible takeaways for those who continually invest in themselves and put positive energy into the world....

    $19.79 or free with 30-day trial

    • The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day
    • By: John H. Johnson PhD, Mike Gluck
    • Narrated by: John H. Johnson PhD
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Everydata explains, through the eyes of an expert economist and statistician, how to decipher the small bytes of data we consume in a day....

    $25.78 or free with your Plus trial

    • An Ingenious Way To Understand Why People Around The World Live And Buy As They Do
    • By: Clotaire Rapaille
    • Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • Internationally revered cultural anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille reveals for the first time the techniques he has used to improve profitability and practices....

    $21.48 or free with 30-day trial

    • How Innovators of the Great Depression Made the Best of the Worst of Times (The Birth, Challenge, and Triumph of Consumer Culture in America: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Book 2)
    • By: Jason Voiovich
    • Narrated by: Jason Voiovich
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In history class, we’ve been taught that the Great Depression was all about crashing stock markets, snaking breadlines, and ecological disasters. We learned that FDR tried to put it right with the New Deal, but it was only World War II that finally succeeded in revitalizing the American economy.

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    • How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy
    • By: Steve Stoute, Mim Eichler Rivas
    • Narrated by: Kerry Washington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 240 ratings
    • The business marketing genius at the forefront of today's entertainment marketing revolution helps corporate America get hip to today's new consumer - the tan generation....

    $17.16 or free with 30-day trial

    • Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What
    • By: Lee Eisenberg
    • Narrated by: Jim Frangione
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A timely exploration, Shoptimism takes a critical look at an often downplayed aspect of American economic prosperity....

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    • The Hidden Driver of Culture and Conflict
    • By: Peter Whitmore
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-24
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Unveil the Hidden Force Shaping Your Desires and Driving Society Are your deepest desires truly your own? Or are they secretly sculpted by the ...

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    • Real Things and Why They Matter
    • By: David Sax
    • Narrated by: David Sax
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • One of Michiko Kakutani's (New York Times) top 10 books of 2016. A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gurus insisted that we no longer needed....

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    • How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
    • By: Rachel Botsman
    • Narrated by: Caroline Baum
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust - far from it. This is the age of "distributed trust"....

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