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Branded and On Display by Daniel Thomas Cook
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $22.20Ours is a culture defined by marketing and acquiring. Virtually every activity in our lives is experienced through purchases, from layettes to caskets. The landscape is studded with logos, brand... -
The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer by Daniel Thomas Cook
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27In this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of children's consumer culture-and the commodification of childhood itself-by looking at the rise, growth, and segmentation of... -
The Moral Project of Childhood: Motherhood, Material Life, and Early Children's Consumer Culture by Daniel Thomas Cook
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumer Throughout history, the responsibility for children's moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project... -
The Moral Project of Childhood: Motherhood, Material Life, and Early Children's Consumer Culture by Daniel Thomas Cook 9781479899203
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $78.68Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumer Throughout history, the responsibility for children's moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project... -
The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer by Daniel Thomas Cook 9780822332794 [USED COPY]
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $10.24In this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of children's consumer culture-and the commodification of childhood itself-by looking at the rise, growth, and segmentation of... -
Adult Supervision Required: Private Freedom and Public Constraints for Parents and Children by Markella B. Rutherford 9780813561134
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $33.00Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and children. In many ways, today's parents and... -
Music in Everyday Life by Professor Tia DeNora 9780521627320
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.92The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an... -
Childhood and Consumer Culture by David Buckingham 9781137442222
Booksplease Price: $60.29In recent years children have become an increasingly important consumer market, and there is growing concern about the 'commercialisation' of childhood. This book sheds light on these debates,... -
Childhood and Consumer Culture by David Buckingham 9780230227835
Booksplease Price: $59.70In recent years children have become an increasingly important consumer market, and there is growing concern about the 'commercialisation' of childhood. This book sheds light on these debates,... -
Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles by Stephen Kline 9780230537408
Booksplease Price: $59.70This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way... -
The Material Child: Growing up in Consumer Culture David Buckingham (Institute of Education, University of London) 9780745647715
Booksplease Price: $26.90Children today are growing up in an increasingly commercialised world. But should we see them as victims of manipulative marketing, or as competent participants in consumer culture? The Material... -
The Material Child: Growing up in Consumer Culture by David Buckingham 9780745647708
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.69Children today are growing up in an increasingly commercialised world. But should we see them as victims of manipulative marketing, or as competent participants in consumer culture? The Material... -
Changing Play: Play, media and commercial culture from the 1950s to the present day by Jackie Marsh 9780335247578
Booksplease Price: $40.38This book explores changes in the nature of the relationship between play, media and commercial culture through a comparison of play in the 1950s/60s and the present day, examining the continuities... -
Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life by Allison James 9780230575998
Booksplease Price: $118.67This book explores the significance of food practices for childhood identities, from early babyhood to middle childhood and teenage years. It examines how children and families negotiate food and... -
Critics, Ratings, and Society: The Sociology of Reviews by Grant Blank 9780742547025
Booksplease Price: $145.91How do we make choices in an information-saturated world? Prior studies often assume that the problem is coping with the volume of information. They rarely ask how people judge the validity of new... -
Critics, Ratings, and Society: The Sociology of Reviews by Grant Blank 9780742547032
Booksplease Price: $52.09How do we make choices in an information-saturated world? Prior studies often assume that the problem is coping with the volume of information. They rarely ask how people judge the validity of new... -
Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life by A. James 9781349365968
Booksplease Price: $118.69This book explores the significance of food practices for childhood identities, from early babyhood to middle childhood and teenage years. It examines how children and families negotiate food and... -
Reimagining Childhood Studies by Professor Spyros Spyrou 9781350019218
Booksplease Price: $40.66Reimagining Childhood Studies incites, and provides a forum for, dialogue and debate about the direction and impetus for critical and global approaches to social-cultural studies of children and... -
Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars by Amy L. Best 9780814799314
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Bass booms from custom speakers, pick-up trucks boast lowered suspensions, chrome rims reflect stoplights, and bare arms dangle from open windows. Welcome to Santa Clara Street in San Jose,... -
Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars by Amy L. Best 9780814799307
Booksplease Price: $116.84Bass booms from custom speakers, pick-up trucks boast lowered suspensions, chrome rims reflect stoplights, and bare arms dangle from open windows. Welcome to Santa Clara Street in San Jose,... -
Explorations in Consumer Culture Theory by John F. Sherry, Jr. 9780415620406
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86The literature of marketplace behaviour, long dominated by economic and psychological discourse, has matured in the last decade to reveal the vast expanse of consumption activity not adequately... -
Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds by Susan Falls 9781479810666
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $63.56Images of diamonds appear everywhere in American culture. And everyone who has a diamond has a story to tell about it. Our stories about diamonds not only reveal what we do with these tiny stones,... -
Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds by Susan Falls 9781479879908
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.28Images of diamonds appear everywhere in American culture. And everyone who has a diamond has a story to tell about it. Our stories about diamonds not only reveal what we do with these tiny stones,... -
Who Owns Native Culture? by Michael F. Brown 9780674016330
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $32.95The practical and artistic creations of native peoples permeate everyday life in settler nations, from the design elements on our clothing to the plot-lines of books we read to our children. Rarely,...