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This revealing book provides an incisive treatment of consumption on a global scale from a cultural, philosophical and business perspective. It is an original a

Consumption is widely regarded as one of the most important phenomena in contemporary society, but, till now, there has been very little analysis of how consump

Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an e

The buying, selling, and writing of books is a colossal industry in which marketing looms large, yet there are very few books which deal with book marketing (ho

Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, int