The Culture of Contentment, Paperback - John Kenneth Galbraith

DescriptionThe world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of Contentment, renowned economist John Kenneth...

Reducere. THE ESSENTIAL GALBRAITH includes key selections from the most important works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most distinguished writers of o...

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A book explaining the history of economics; including the powerful and vested interests which moulded the theories to their financial advantage; as...

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Reducere. John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was one of America's most famous economists for good reason. From his acerbic analysis of America's "private wea...

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Over the course of the last century, the focus group has become an increasingly vital part of the way companies and politicians sell their products...

Much more than a drink, wine is a real myth, with one millenary history, a very rich tradition and a vast and articulated system culturally, both a...

The authorised full story of the troubled and brilliant comic genius that was Kenneth Williams

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A wide-ranging look at surrealist and postsurrealist engagements with the culture and imagery of childhood.

It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - e...

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Explores the representation of everyday life across several disciplines in a century known for its interest in individual experience of the mundane...

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Where did the custom of duelling originate, and why did it spread so quickly all over Europe and the Americas?Illustrations: 30 b&w illus

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A lively and original study tracing the development of 'laziness' as a social problem in the Ottoman Empire over the long nineteenth-century. Hafez...

Contributor(s): Author: G. Allen PowerYears before the federal government started setting goals to reduce the use of psychotropic drugs in long-ter...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Joseph (University of Ulster, UK) McBrinnIllustration(s): 16 colour and 71 bw illusNumber of pages: ...

Throughout its long history, home dressmaking has been a formative experience in the lives of millions of women. In an age of relative affluence an...

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Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): D LyonNumber of pages: 172Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 144 x 222 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecu...

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Digital games have become an increasingly pervasive aspect of everyday life as well as an embattled cultural phenomenon in the twenty-first century...

Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of hi...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emerita Ruth Pritchard (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) DawsonIllustration(s): 60 bw i...