The Waste Makers

Author : Vance Packard
Publisher : Ig Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781935439370
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Waste Makers written by Vance Packard and published by Ig Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering work from the 1960s about how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods degraded the environmental, financial and spiritual character of western society. It exposed the increasing commercialisation of American life, when people bought things they didn't need or want. It also highlighted the concept of planned obsolescence, the 'death date' built into products. This prescient study predicted the rise of consumer culture and features an introduction by bestselling author Bill McKibben.

Author : Daniel Horowitz
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807862118
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vance Packard and American Social Criticism written by Daniel Horowitz and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vance Packard's bestselling books--Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960)--taught the generation that came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence. Like Betty Friedan and William H. Whyte, Jr., Packard (1914- ) was a journalist who played an important role in the nation's transition from the largely complacent 1950s to the tumultuous 1960s. He was also one of the first social critics to benefit from and foster the newly energized social and political consciousness of this period. Based in part on interviews with Packard, Daniel Horowitz's intellectual biography focuses on the period during which Packard left magazine writing to author his most famous works of social criticism. Horowitz traces the influence of Packard's education and early years in rural Pennsylvania, providing a deeper understanding of his thought and his later books. Packard's life, Horowitz contends, illuminates the dilemmas of a freelance social critic without inherited wealth or academic affiliation. His career also expands our understanding of how one era shaped the next, underscoring how the adversarial 1960s drew on the mass culture of the previous decade. Originally published in 1994. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Vance Packard
Publisher : Richmond Hill, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Waste Makers written by Vance Packard and published by Richmond Hill, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada. This book was released on 1969 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vance Packard
Publisher : Ig Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780978843106
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Persuaders written by Vance Packard and published by Ig Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of how modern advertising attempts to control our thoughts and desires in order to make us buy the products it produces. Exploring the use of consumer motivational research and other psychological techniques, including subliminal tactics, this book shows how advertisers secretly manipulate mass desire for consumer goods and products. In addition, Packard also discusses advertising in politics, predicting the way image and personality rapidly came to overshadow real issues in the televised age.

Author : Jerry Arnold
Publisher : Industrial Press Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780831131326
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Die Makers Handbook written by Jerry Arnold and published by Industrial Press Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book of its kind expressly intended to help avoid the pitfalls associated with stamping designs, die designs, and stamping die function.

Author : Hazel G. Warlaumont
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advertising in the 60s written by Hazel G. Warlaumont and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s provides Warlaumont with the backdrop for examining the struggle of advertising during the anti-establishment movement in one of America's most colorful but turbulent decades. Targeted by the counterculture, threatened with government regulation, criticized as a waste maker by social critics, weakened by internal strife between the liberal and traditional forces within the industry, and faced with the consumption-weary public, advertising faced one of its most challenging times. Yet surprisingly, it made history with its unprecedented creativity and innovation during the 60s. Distancing itself from the Establishment, advertising, as a wolf in sheep's clothing, joined the cultural revolution, changed the way it related to its audience, and attempted to seduce consumers with humor, resonance, candidness, and a power-to-the-people approach. Masking its ultimate goal to maintain, preserve, and promote the consumption ethic and business elite, advertising joined an infectious wave to overturn the old and stodgy ways. Becoming a turncoat by appearing to abandon its traditional materialistic and authoritarian stance—even mimicking it in some instances—advertising became a cause celebre with its colorful and humorous campaigns, validating itself while under fire. Using the 60s as a backdrop, Warlaumont examines the struggle of a traditional institution during one of America's most turbulent decades. Scholars, students, and researchers involved with business, communications, and advertising history as well as the general public interested in the 1960s will find this study fascinating.

Author : Selva Almada
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451611
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brickmakers written by Selva Almada and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A piercing and passionate novel, set in rural Argentina, about violence and masculinity Oscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons, Pájaro and Ángelito, somehow fell in love. Brickmakers begins as Pájaro and Marciano, Ángelito’s older brother, lie dying in the mud at the base of a Ferris wheel. Inhabiting a dreamlike state between life and death, they recall the events that forced them to pay the price of their fathers’ petty feud. The Tamai and Miranda families are caught, like the Capulets and the Montagues, in an almost mythic conflict, one that emerges from stubborn pride and intractable machismo. Like her heralded debut, The Wind That Lays Waste, Selva Almada’s fierce and tender second novel is an unforgettable portrayal of characters who initially seem to stand in opposition, but are ultimately revealed to be bound by their similarities. Almada enlarges the tradition of some of the most distinctive prose stylists of our time. In Brickmakers, she furthers her extraordinary exploration of masculinity and the realities of working-class rural life. This is another exquisitely written and powerfully told story by a major international voice.

Author : Stuart Chase
Publisher : New York : Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragedy of Waste written by Stuart Chase and published by New York : Grosset & Dunlap. This book was released on 1925 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James B. Whisker
Publisher : Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arms Makers of Pennsylvania written by James B. Whisker and published by Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey, with hundreds of illustrations, of the arms making industry in Pennsylvania from its beginnings until about 1900. it focuses on the Pennsylvania long (Kentucky) rifle, and identifies the primary schools of gun making and major technological developments. Illustrated.

Author : Vance Packard
Publisher : New York : D. McKay Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naked Society written by Vance Packard and published by New York : D. McKay Company. This book was released on 1964 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the invasion of privacy in the United States by government, business, and education. Describes surveillance techniques and tools of investigative experts.