Now available in English for the first time, Jean Baudrillard's classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book still makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. Many of the themes which would make Baudrillard famous appear here for the first time. The book in...(展开全部)

让•鲍德里亚（Jean Baudrillard，1929－2007），法国哲学家，后现代社会思想大师，曾被称为后现代主义牧师。作为最先进的媒介和社会理论家，他也被法国学界推崇为新的麦克卢汉。从1988年起，鲍德里亚在英美学界获得广泛赞誉。其主要代表著作包括《物体系》《消费社会》《符号政治经济学批判》《生产之镜》《象征交换与死亡》等。

让•鲍德里亚（Jean Baudrillard，1929－2007），法国哲学家，后现代社会思想大师，曾被称为后现代主义牧师。作为最先进的媒介和社会理论家，他也被法国学界推崇为新的麦克卢汉。从1988年起，鲍德里亚在英美学界获得广泛赞誉。其主要代表著作包括《物体系》《消费社会》《符号政治经济学批判》《生产之镜》《象征交换与死亡》等。

Now available in English for the first time, Jean Baudrillard's classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book still makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. Many of the themes which would make Baudrillard famous appear here for the first time. The book in...(展开全部)

From the Magical Unicorn Society's Department of Unicorns, Myths and Monsters comes this all-new collection of stories dedicated to the amazing mythical creatures - good and bad - that exist alongside unicorns. Introduced by department head and intrepid explorer, May Shaw, there are tales of fearsome, fire-breathing dragons, phoenixes rising from the ashes, mysterious kraken th...(展开全部)

Airbnb, gaming, escape rooms, major sporting events: contemporary capitalism no longer demands we merely consume things, but that we buy experiences. This book is concerned with the social, cultural and personal implications of this shift. The technologically-driven world we live in is no closer to securing the utopian ideal of a leisure society. Instead, the pursuit of leisure...(展开全部)

Airbnb, gaming, escape rooms, major sporting events: contemporary capitalism no longer demands we merely consume things, but that we buy experiences. This book is concerned with the social, cultural and personal implications of this shift. The technologically-driven world we live in is no closer to securing the utopian ideal of a leisure society. Instead, the pursuit of leisure...(展开全部)

Early in the age of affluence that began after World War II, retailing analyst Victor Lebow declared: "Our enormously productive economy... demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption...We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replac...(展开全部)

“Goodbye, beliefs in sex differences disguised as evolutionary facts. Welcome the dragon slayer: Cordelia Fine wittily but meticulously lays bare the irrational arguments that we use to justify gender politics.”―Uta Frith, emeritus professor of cognitive development, University College London Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental, diverging forc...(展开全部)

This book examines the commercial speech of advertising as a cultural phenomenon whose social significance far exceeds its economic influence. Jhally argues that by selling viewing time to advertisers, television converts audiences into laborers who "work" for the media in the same way that workers do in a factory. By watching commercial messages on TV, viewers actively create ...(展开全部)