Consumer Culture

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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 7,913 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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    • 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 725 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 to Have Stuff Without Breaking the Planet
    • By: Sandra Goldmark
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Sandra Goldmark has become a leader in the movement to demand better "stuff". She doesn't just want to help us clear clutter - she aims to move us away from throwaway culture, to teach us to reuse and repurpose more thoughtfully, and to urge companies to produce better stuff....

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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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    • A Theory of the Aspirational Class
    • By: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
    • Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • The leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Elizabeth Currid-Halkett dubs this segment of society "the aspirational class"....

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    • 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 367 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....

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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 101 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....

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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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    • The Hidden Driver of Culture and Conflict
    • By: Peter Whitmore
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-24
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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 414 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....

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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 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 238 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....

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    • Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital
    • By: Elise Hu
    • Narrated by: Elise Hu
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • An audacious journalistic exploration of the present and future of beauty through the lens of South Korea's booming "K-beauty" industry and the culture it promotes, by Elise Hu, NPR host-at-large and the host of TED Talks Daily....

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    • Departing the Consumer Culture
    • By: Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
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    • The authors invite you on a journey of departure from our consumer market culture. Discover an alternative set of beliefs that have the capacity to evoke a culture where poverty, violence, and shrinking well-being are not inevitable....

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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 89 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....

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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 215 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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    • What the Internet Is Hiding from You
    • By: Eli Pariser
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 309 ratings
    • In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on....

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    • How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt
    • By: Sinan Aral
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • Social media connected the world - and gave rise to fake news and increasing polarization. Now a leading researcher at MIT draws on 20 years of research to show how these trends threaten our political, economic, and emotional health....

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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 76 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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    • 10 Commandments for Transforming Brand Culture in a Consumer Democracy
    • By: Marc Gobe
    • Narrated by: Ken Maxon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Filled with timely demographics on evolving trends, powerful images from advertising and retail, and practical examples from the author's own experience, Citizen Brand is a powerful tool....

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