David Boyle guides us through the next big thing in Western living -- the determined rejection of the fake, the virtual, the spun and the mass-produced, in the search for authenticity. The charms of the global and virtual future we were all brought up to expect, where meals would be eaten in the form of pills and machines would do all our work, have worn rather thin. It's not that we don't want all the advantages of progress, we just want a future that manages to be local and real too. Tracking the struggle for reality from Japanese theme parks to mock-Tudor villas and from Byron to Big Brother, 'Authenticity' explains where our reactions against spin and fakeness come from -- and where they are going. The current revival of real food, real business, real culture flies in the face of expert opinion from politicians, economists, advertisers and big business -- and they're having to run to keep up as our hype attention-span gets ever shorter. Optimistic, witty, highly thought-provoking and packed with fascinating stories, Boyle's search asks whether coolness is dead, how real reality is and whether realpolitik can ever change into real politics. He puts authenticity firmly on the map, lifting the lid on all the other symptoms of this powerful new phenomenon -- revealing the unexpected force that looks set to change all our lives.

Authenticity : Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life

Politics & Social Sciences

DAVID BOYLE

Social Sciences

Harper-perennial

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-01-16 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK If you thought being middle-class meant your own home. something set aside for the kids and a comfortable retirement - think again.For the first time ever. today's middle classes will struggle to enjoy the same privileges of security and comfort that their grandparents did. How did this situation come about What can be done about itIn this beautifully shaped inquiry. David Boyle questions why the middle classes are diminishing and how their status. independence and values ??are being eroded From Thatcher's boost of the mortgage market in 1980 to the move from regional to centralised institutions;. from the collapse of Barings Bank to the 1986 Big Bang. 'Broke' examines the key moments in recent history that threatened the middle-class way of life.What he discovers is that the triumphs of...

Broke

Fourth Estate

World War II was the most intensively photographed conflict in history. Military and press photographers, propagandists, camera-wielding soldiers, and civilians all took the opportunity to record the tumultuous events of 1939-1945. From the mass suffering to the individual heroism, the cruelty to the humanitarianism, the misery to the hope, World War II: A Photographic History features the images and the stories that document this extraordinary period. With its wealth of memorable images, this truly comprehensive book provides an unrivalled overview of a time when three-quarters of the globe went to war.

World war II: A photographic history

History

Military

Barnes&Noble Books

History Makers

David Harding

Paul Brewer

ALAN BROWN

Malcolm Chandler

GERARD CHESHIRE

Ingrid Cranfield

Deborah Gill

Ray Driscoll

BRENDA RALPH. LEWIS

Barnes&Noble

Hardcover book with dust jacket. Homer's Iliad with biographical details of the characters involved. Illustrated.

Troy: Homer's Iliad Retold

Viv Croot

For a so-called art movement, impressionist painters were a very dissimilar group. Monet and Renoir liked people-watching and hanging out with the jet set at La Brenouillière. Degas got his kicks from ballet dancers, working models, and racehorses. One thing these artists all had in common, however, was a love of color: bright, big, bold dabs of it. Impressionist Art: A Crash Course provides lots of color as well as hundreds of amusing anecdotes and little-known facts about this popular period. Readers will not only be able to tell the Manets from the Monets, but will quickly become experts on the many mini-movements within this popular style. This fun-loving guide is appealing, compact, lavishly illustrated, and conveniently organized chronologically spread by spread. For anyone who can’t tell the water lilies from the haystacks, Impressionist Art: A Crash Course is an enjoyable trip for all. • Reader-friendly and informative text brings new dimension to familiar history • Each 2-page spread is devoted to a particular impressionist movement, topic, or individual artist • Compact and easy to follow timeline puts vital events of the period into context

Impressionist Art: A Crash Course (Crash Courses)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Watson-Guptill Publications Div., BPI Comm's, Inc.

Give and Take: How Timebanking is Transforming Healthcare

Sarah Bird

Timebanking UK

The New Economics: A Bigger Picture

Andrew Simms

Routledge

African Americans: Coming to America

Children's Books

Barron's Education Series

Consider a world where gold is worthless, everybody earns the same amount, banks do not exist, and international trade is banned. Would our lives be better if all work was fun, debt was wiped out, and anybody could live wherever they wanted? What would happen if we banned commercials, stopped shopping, and rationed carbon? All of these ideas and more are analyzed and debated in this timely new book. At a period when the banking system seems to be failing and the whole idea of capitalism appears to be up for debate, What If Money Grew on Trees? challenges a team of experts to put their minds to 50 speculations on economics. The questions they address turn accepted concepts on their heads, consider what would happen if existing constants were changed, and ask why we do things the way we do. Presents 50 sideways views on the world of economics, each one written by a leading scholar Thought-provoking speculations engage the reader while conveying the essential basics A new way of digesting knowledge that brightens up the

What If Money Grew On Trees

Metro

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