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Author : Vance Packard
Publisher : Richmond Hill, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Waste Makers written by Vance Packard and published by Richmond Hill, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada. This book was released on 1969 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vance Packard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671822941
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Waste Makers written by Vance Packard and published by . This book was released on 1978-05-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vance Packard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (464 download)
Download or read book The Waste Makers written by Vance Packard and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Washington Waste-makers written by George Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501725866
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Waste written by Eiko Maruko Siniawer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waste makes an outsized contribution to the study of postwar Japanese history... will be essential reading for students of modern Japan as well as our current era more broadly.―The Journal of Asian Studies Waste is an elegant history of how people lived—how they made sense of, gave meaning to, and found value in the acts of the everyday. In Waste, Eiko Maruko Siniawer innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about waste—in terms of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources—from the immediate aftermath of World War II to the present. She shows how questions about waste were deeply embedded in the decisions of everyday life, reflecting the priorities and aspirations of the historical moment, and revealing people’s ever-changing concerns and hopes. Over the course of the long postwar, Japanese society understood waste variously as backward and retrogressive, an impediment to progress, a pervasive outgrowth of mass consumption, incontrovertible proof of societal excess, the embodiment of resources squandered, and a hazard to the environment. Siniawer also shows how an encouragement of waste consciousness served as a civilizing and modernizing imperative, a moral good, an instrument for advancement, a path to self-satisfaction, an environmental commitment, an expression of identity, and more. From the late 1950s onward, a defining element of Japan’s postwar experience emerged: the tension between the desire for the privileges of middle-class lifestyles made possible by affluence and dissatisfaction with the logics, costs, and consequences of that very prosperity. This tension complicated the persistent search for what might be called well-being, a good life, or a life well lived.
Author : Vance Packard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (813 download)
Download or read book The waste makers (Translated title). written by Vance Packard and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Waste Makers written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vance
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Harry Elmer Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Waste Makers written by Harry Elmer Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Strasser
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466872284
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Waste and Want written by Susan Strasser and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life--throwing things out--and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture--the trash it produces--and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. Before the twentieth century, streets and bodies stank, but trash was nearly nonexistent. With goods and money scarce, almost everything was reused. Strasser paints a vivid picture of an America where scavenger pigs roamed the streets, swill children collected kitchen garbage, and itinerant peddlers traded manufactured goods for rags and bones. Over the last hundred years, however, Americans have become hooked on convenience, disposability, fashion, and constant technological change--the rise of mass consumption has led to waste on a previously unimaginable scale. Lively and colorful, Waste and Want recaptures a hidden part of our social history, vividly illustrating that what counts as trash depends on who's counting, and that what we throw away defines us as much as what we keep.
Author : Selva Almada
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451611
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)
Download or read book Brickmakers written by Selva Almada and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A piercing and passionate novel, set in rural Argentina, about violence and masculinity Oscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons, Pájaro and Ángelito, somehow fell in love. Brickmakers begins as Pájaro and Marciano, Ángelito’s older brother, lie dying in the mud at the base of a Ferris wheel. Inhabiting a dreamlike state between life and death, they recall the events that forced them to pay the price of their fathers’ petty feud. The Tamai and Miranda families are caught, like the Capulets and the Montagues, in an almost mythic conflict, one that emerges from stubborn pride and intractable machismo. Like her heralded debut, The Wind That Lays Waste, Selva Almada’s fierce and tender second novel is an unforgettable portrayal of characters who initially seem to stand in opposition, but are ultimately revealed to be bound by their similarities. Almada enlarges the tradition of some of the most distinctive prose stylists of our time. In Brickmakers, she furthers her extraordinary exploration of masculinity and the realities of working-class rural life. This is another exquisitely written and powerfully told story by a major international voice.
Author : Hazel G. Warlaumont
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Advertising in the 60s written by Hazel G. Warlaumont and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s provides Warlaumont with the backdrop for examining the struggle of advertising during the anti-establishment movement in one of America's most colorful but turbulent decades. Targeted by the counterculture, threatened with government regulation, criticized as a waste maker by social critics, weakened by internal strife between the liberal and traditional forces within the industry, and faced with the consumption-weary public, advertising faced one of its most challenging times. Yet surprisingly, it made history with its unprecedented creativity and innovation during the 60s. Distancing itself from the Establishment, advertising, as a wolf in sheep's clothing, joined the cultural revolution, changed the way it related to its audience, and attempted to seduce consumers with humor, resonance, candidness, and a power-to-the-people approach. Masking its ultimate goal to maintain, preserve, and promote the consumption ethic and business elite, advertising joined an infectious wave to overturn the old and stodgy ways. Becoming a turncoat by appearing to abandon its traditional materialistic and authoritarian stance—even mimicking it in some instances—advertising became a cause celebre with its colorful and humorous campaigns, validating itself while under fire. Using the 60s as a backdrop, Warlaumont examines the struggle of a traditional institution during one of America's most turbulent decades. Scholars, students, and researchers involved with business, communications, and advertising history as well as the general public interested in the 1960s will find this study fascinating.
Author : Heather Rogers
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595585729
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Gone Tomorrow written by Heather Rogers and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A galvanizing exposé” of America’s trash problem from plastic in the ocean to “wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators” (Booklist, starred review). Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you’re soon faced with a bewildering amount of garbage. The United States is the planet’s number-one producer of trash. Each American throws out 4.5 pounds daily. But garbage is also a global problem. Today, the Pacific Ocean contains six times more plastic waste than zooplankton. How did we end up with this much rubbish, and where does it all go? Journalist and filmmaker Heather Rogers answers these questions by taking readers on a grisly and fascinating tour through the underworld of garbage. Gone Tomorrow excavates the history of rubbish handling from the nineteenth century to the present, pinpointing the roots of today’s waste-addicted society. With a “lively authorial voice,” Rogers draws connections between modern industrial production, consumer culture, and our throwaway lifestyle (New York Press). She also investigates the politics of recycling and the export of trash to poor countries, while offering a potent argument for change. “A clear-thinking and peppery writer, Rogers presents a galvanizing exposé of how we became the planet’s trash monsters. . . . [Gone Tomorrow] details everything that is wrong with today’s wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators. . . . Rogers exhibits black-belt precision.” —Booklist, starred review
Author : Philip R. O'Leary
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788176048
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Decision-Maker's Guide to Solid-Waste Management written by Philip R. O'Leary and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide has been developed particularly for solid waste management practitioners, such as local government officials, facility owners and operators, consultants, and regulatory agency specialists. Contains technical and economic information to help these practitioners meet the daily challenges of planning, managing, and operating municipal solid waste (MSW) programs and facilities. The Guide's primary goals are to encourage reduction of waste at the source and to foster implementation of integrated solid waste management systems that are cost-effective and protect human health and the environment. Illustrated.
Author : Giles Slade
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674043758
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Made to Break written by Giles Slade and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.
Author : Alice Mah
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509549471
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Plastic Unlimited written by Alice Mah and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the global movement to tackle plastic pollution, demand for plastics continues to rise. As the world transitions away from fossil fuels, plastics are set to be the biggest driver of oil demand. Single-use plastics – deemed essential in the fight against COVID-19 – have been given a new lease of life. In a world beset with crisis fatigue, what can we do to curb the escalating plastics crisis? In this book, Alice Mah reveals how petrochemical and plastics corporations have fought relentlessly to protect and expand plastics markets in the face of existential threats to business. From denying the toxic health effects of plastics to co-opting circular economy solutions to plastic waste and exploiting the opportunities offered up by the global pandemic, industry has deflected attention from the key problem: plastics production. The consequences of unfettered plastics growth are pernicious and highly unequal. We all have a part to play in reducing plastics consumption but we must tackle the problem at its root: the capitalist imperative for limitless growth.
Author : Daniel Horowitz
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807862118
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Vance Packard and American Social Criticism written by Daniel Horowitz and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vance Packard's bestselling books--Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960)--taught the generation that came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence. Like Betty Friedan and William H. Whyte, Jr., Packard (1914- ) was a journalist who played an important role in the nation's transition from the largely complacent 1950s to the tumultuous 1960s. He was also one of the first social critics to benefit from and foster the newly energized social and political consciousness of this period. Based in part on interviews with Packard, Daniel Horowitz's intellectual biography focuses on the period during which Packard left magazine writing to author his most famous works of social criticism. Horowitz traces the influence of Packard's education and early years in rural Pennsylvania, providing a deeper understanding of his thought and his later books. Packard's life, Horowitz contends, illuminates the dilemmas of a freelance social critic without inherited wealth or academic affiliation. His career also expands our understanding of how one era shaped the next, underscoring how the adversarial 1960s drew on the mass culture of the previous decade. Originally published in 1994. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
