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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 33 min.)
Language
English
Description
This powerful video scrutinizes what Juliet Schor calls "the new consumerism" - a national phenomenon of upscale spending shaped and reinforced by a media system driven by commercial interests. Illustrated with hundreds of media examples, The Overspent American draws attention to the costs (both financial and social) of the relentless search for happiness and identity through spending.
Author
Publisher
Harperwave, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A guide for understanding, diagnosing, and treating one of the most discussed yet little-understood health conditions: leaky gut syndrome.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings in a phone booth. He has lived without money - and with a newfound sense of freedom and security - ever since. This book is an account of how one man learned to live, sanely and happily, without earning, receiving, or spending a single cent.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life through the stories of three families of new pioneers and what inspired each of them to look for--or create--a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future might actually look like.--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Atria Books/Beyond Words hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A close-up examination and exploration, How We Live Now challenges our old concepts of what it means to be a family and have a home, opening the door to the many diverse and thriving experiments of living in twenty-first century America. Across America and around the world, in cities and suburbs and small towns, people from all walks of life are redefining our "lifespaces"--the way we live and who we live with. The traditional nuclear family in their...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After an abusive, neglected childhood spent on welfare and in and out of homelessness in Alaska, raised by a mother who believed she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging with a bunch of straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and find her food by foraging in dumpsters. Her new life was one of thrilling...
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