Consumption – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Alexei Penzin,
Insomnia

Contemporary theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, have identified that an essential feature of capitalism is an uninterrupted or permanently wakeful continuity of pro…

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Handbook of AI-based Media Disruption

Future of Business and Finance

Generative AI is reshaping the media landscape with unprecedented speed and scale. This book examines the disruptive impact of these technologies on the media sector. From the advent of tools like ChatGPT…

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Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
A Concise History of the World

Cambridge Concise Histories

Telling the story of humankind from the Paleolithic to the present, this book widens and lengthens human history. Renowned historian Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world history by exa…

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Breeding of Ornamental Crops: Potted Plants and Shrubs

Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies - Band 7

Flowers and other ornamental plants are used for all occasions to meet consumers demands preferably novel flowers traits, e.g., fragrance, flower color and shape, early flowering, less water consumption, …

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Stefan Manz, Uwe Spiekermann
Making Food Empires

The rise of German science and technology in the nineteenth century had a significant impact on food production on a global scale. The spread of scientific methods facilitated the emergence of those mass …

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Neil Selwyn
Digital Degrowth

We are fast approaching the point of "peak digital", with the continued mass production and excessive consumption of digital technologies set to become a key driver of climate crisis, ecological…

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Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class

The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) by Thorstein Veblen is a critical analysis of modern consumer society. Veblen argues that in capitalist economies, social status is displayed through conspicuous con…

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Michaela Fink
Labor Turnover in Ethiopia's Textile Industry

Global Studies

The Ethiopian textile industry is particularly affected by high labor turnover. In a compelling social study, Michaela Fink investigates the causes of this issue, focusing primarily on the voices of the (…

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Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
A Concise History of the World

Telling the story of humankind from the Paleolithic to the present, this book widens and lengthens human history. Renowned historian Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world history by exa…

lieferbar ab 31.5.2026.

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Joaquín Vial
Sustainable Development and Natural Resources

The book focuses on the tensions and challenges faced by emerging economies, which, although rich in natural resources, struggle to achieve economic and social development amid a global environmental cris…

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Patrick Mulford O'Connor
The Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 1862-1933

A deeply researched and clearly argued account of the mutual growth of the federal government and the modern tobacco Nearly everything about the United States tobacco economy changed in the generation fol…

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Arabelle Sicardi
The House of Beauty

Arabelle Sicardi brings a singular voice-poetic, candid, incisive-to the complexities of the beauty industry. Weaving sharp analysis and vivid storytelling, Sicardi explores how beauty myths are crafted, …

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The Cruel and Reparative Possibilities of Failure

The Cruel and Reparative Possibilities of Failure brings together a variety of scholars and research across disciplines, with an emphasis on communication and gender studies, to work toward reimagining th…

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Jerry A McBeath
Energy Resources

An authoritative, comprehensive overview of economic, political, and environmental drivers of America's energy picture, from trends in the production and consumption of fossil fuels and renewables to the …

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Neil Ewins
Alternative Narratives in Ceramic History

Introducing new insights into the history of ceramic design and consumption, Neil Ewins departs from the focus on manufacturers and producers and presents a third perspective that puts the multifaceted li…

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The Artistry and Legacy of Queen

Over a career spanning six decades, Queen have become one of the most successful music artists in the history of the recorded music industry.Their consumption on digital platforms towers above other class…

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Maria Angelica Sandoval Salas, Ashlee Carolina Estrada Herrera, Carlos Alexander Mendoza Jacomino
Self Technologies

Self Technologies is a work that explores how people construct and transform their identity through everyday and reflexive practices in contemporary society. Based on the concepts of philosopher Michel Fo…

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Alioune Ndiaye
Reinventing the economy: SSE solutions to contemporary challenges

Today, the social and solidarity economy (SSE) represents much more than a simple alternative model: it embodies a real necessity in the face of contemporary challenges. In a world marked by growing inequ…

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Steven Connor
Exorbitance

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance -- of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence -- preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the …

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Breeding of Ornamental Crops: Bulbous Flowers

Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies - Band 5

Flowers and other ornamental plants are used for all social occasions. Consumers' preferences dictate the development of novel flower traits such as fragrance, flower color and shape, early flowering, les…

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