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Luke Carson

The career of Ezra Pound has come to represent the political tendencies which some critics have claimed to be inherent in modernist aesthetics. Taking historical guidance from Pound's ideas, Luke Carson examines the political and economic reflections and investigations undertaken by Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky during the crucial period of the Depression. These three very different writers, he argues, share a complex set of attitudes and beliefs grounded in a collective social fantasy which is centred on the figure of 'material abundance'. He traces the contours of this social fantasy in Marxist and psychoanalytical terms to claim that it takes shape in relation to the rise of mass consumption and the emergence of corporate social forms. The Depression, he argues, provokes a crisis in the social values corresponding to the figure of material abundance, and instigates the return of an ethic of sacrifice associated with conditions of scarcity.

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Elizabeth L. Cline

Evaluates the costs of low-priced clothing while tracing the author's own transformation to a conscientious shopper, a journey during which she visited a garment factory, learned to resole shoes, and shopped for local, sustainable clothing.

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Kaj Ilmonen

From the publisher. Kaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview of the sociology of consumption, arguing that the enthusiasm of 'the third wave' exaggerated the role of the symbolic and imaginary at the expense of the materiality of human societies.

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Jussi Valtonen

Joe Chayefski has got what he always wanted: a reputation as one of America's top neuroscientists, a beautiful wife and two perfect daughters. But his carefully created idyll is threatened when his Baltimore neuroscience lab is targeted by animal rights activists. The attack is followed by a phone call from Joe's ex-wife in Finland. Two decades have passed since he abandoned Alina and their young son, Samuel, returning to America to advance his career. Now Samuel is somewhere in the States, and Alina fears he is looking for revenge. As Joe struggles to protect his new family from the increasing threat of violence - and to save his eldest daughter from the clutches of an unscrupulous tech company - he is forced to reconsider his priorities and take drastic action to save those he loves.