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Week of November 26, 2007

HOLIDAY SHOPPING/SPENDING - November 26, 2007
News Item: Black Friday - The Holiday Shopping Season Begins

 

Affluenza (VHS) - Illustrates the "causes and negative consequences of consumerism in American society"
Produced by John de Graaf and Vivia Boe. KCTS Television, 1997
Call Number: HN60 .A442 1997 (In the Boca Raton MEDIA CENTER)

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
By John de Graaf, David Wann & Thomas H. Naylor. Berrett-Koehler, 2001
Call Number: HN60 .D396 2001

Con$umed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
By Benjamin R. Barber. W.W. Norton & Co., 2007
Call Number: HC110. C6 B324 2007 (At JUPITER - May be borrowed using ILL services)

Do Americans Shop Too Much?
By Juliet Schor. Beacon Press, 2000
Call Number: HC110 .C6 D6 2000

Lead Us Into Temptation
By James B. Twitchell. Columbia University Press, 1999
Available online through NetLibrary*

The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumer
By Juliet B. Schor. Basic Books, 1998
Call Number: HF5415.33 .U6 S36 1998