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Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

Ellen Ruppel Shell ,  Lorna Raver

9781400112791

Tantor Media, Inc


Consumerism

Audio

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From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt---and almost everywhere in between---America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little examined obsession is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time---the engine of globalization, outsourcing, planned obsolescence, and economic instability in an increasingly unsettled world.

By:   Ellen Ruppel Shell
Narrator:   Lorna Raver
Imprint:   Tantor Media, Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Unabridged
Dimensions:   Height: 27mm,  Width: 137mm,  Spine: 163mm
Weight:   79g
ISBN:  

9781400112791


ISBN 10:   1400112796
Publication Date:   July 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Ellen Ruppel Shell is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly magazine and has written about science and medicine for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, National Geographic, Time, Discover, the Boston Globe, and dozens of other national publications. She is also the author of The Hungry Gene: The Inside Story of the Obesity Industry, which has been published in six languages. Shell is a professor of journalism at Boston University, where she codirects the graduate program in science journalism. Lorna Raver has been named a Best Voice of the Year by AudioFile magazine and has been nominated for Audie Awards for her readings of Washington Square by Henry James, Nothing with Strings by Bailey White, and Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson. She has also received numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards for her narrations. An accomplished stage actress, Lorna has also guest-starred in many top television series, and she stars in director Sam Raimi's film Drag Me to Hell.


Even when you disagree with Ruppel Shell, you'll find yourself learning a great deal and enjoying the experience. ---The Boston Globe

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