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  • Spaces for Consumption

    by Steven Miles ...
    In Spaces for Consumption Steven Miles develops a penetrating critique of a key shift characterising the contemporary city. Theoretically informed, the other strength of the volume lies in the wealth of examples that are drawn upon to show how cities are becoming spaces for consumption, which has itself rapidly become a global phenomenon."- Ronan Paddison, University of Glasgow"This is a great ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Culture-Led Urban Regeneration

    Edited by Ronan Paddison, R. Steven Miles ...
    Series series Urban Studies Monographs
    The idea that culture can be employed as a driver for urban economic growth has become part of the new orthodoxy by which cities seek to enhance their competitive position. Such developments reflect not only the rise to prominence of the cultural sphere in the contemporary (urban) economy, but how the meaning of culture has been redefined to include new uses in order to meet social, economic and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Consumer Culture

    Edited by Olga Kravets, Pauline Maclaran, Steven Miles, Alladi Venkatesh ...
    The question of consumption emerged as a major focus of research and scholarship in the 1990s but the breadth and diversity of consumer culture has not been fully enough explored. The meanings of consumption, particularly in relation to lifestyle and identity, are of great importance to academic areas including business studies, sociology, cultural and media studies, psychology, geography and ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

  • Consumerism

    As a Way of Life

    by Steven Miles ...
    This book provides an introduction to the historical and theoretical foundations of consumerism. It then moves on to examine the experience of consumption in the areas of space and place, technology, fashion, `popular′ music and sport. Throughout, the author brings a critical perspective to bear upon the subject, thus providing a reliable and stimulating guide to a complex and many-sided field. ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • Retail and the Artifice of Social Change

    by Steven Miles ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    In Retail and Social Change Steven Miles, presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of retail and how in both its material and virtual guises it has come to reframe our relationship with the social world. Retail has become increasingly influential in homogenising the urban experience. And yet in reacting to trends in virtual consumption retailers are also becoming more and more ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Communities of Youth

    Cultural Practice and Informal Learning

    by Steven Miles, Axel Pohl, Barbara Stauber, Andreas Walther, Rui Manuel Bargiela Banha, Maria do Carmo Gomes ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002.Communities of Youth critically evaluates what it means to be a young person at the beginning of the twenty-first century and the problems, opportunities and dilemmas that emerge from the experience. The book is concerned with putting key conceptual debates to do with youth in a comparative cutting-edge empirical context. In particular, it endeavours to ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Changing Consumer

    Markets and Meanings

    Edited by Alison Anderson, Kevin Meethan, R Steven Miles, Steven Miles ...
    The consumer ethic is ubiquitous. Everything we do, see, hear and even feel appears to be connected in some way to our experience as consumers. The increasingly high profile of debates over consumption, consumer culture, consumer behaviour and consumer rights reflects a world undergoing rapid change. The Changing Consumer charts the nature of that change, as well as discussing why consumption has ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Any Money Monday (UK)

    British English Version

    by Ivan F. Rivero ...
    Narrated by Steven Miles ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 56 min

    Find out everything you need to know about making more money, protecting your wealth and building a future of financial freedom!Money. That's what almost all of us chase. Whether we like it or not, it's why most of us set our alarm clocks, hopefully only Monday to Friday.What if I told you that the flow of money is infinite, and that only a few people turn the tap on and off as they please? Yes, ... Read more

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  • Cities and Consumption

    by Mark Jayne ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this book asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption moulded by cities?Consumption stands at the intersection of different spheres of everyday life: between the public and the private, the political and the personal, the individual and the social. It is considered to be a means ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Be Creative

    Making a Living in the New Culture Industries

    by Angela McRobbie ...
    In this exciting new book Angela McRobbie charts the ‘euphoric’ moment of the new creative economy, as it rose to prominence in the UK during the Blair years, and considers it from the perspective of contemporary experience of economic austerity and uncertainty about work and employment.McRobbie makes some bold arguments about the staging of creative economy as a mode of ‘labour reform’; she ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Critical Marketing

    by Pauline Maclaran, Michael Saren, Christina Goulding, Richard Elliott, Miriam Caterall ...
    Marketing is still widely perceived as simply the creator of wants and needs through selling and advertising and marketing theory has been criticized for not taking a more critical approach to the subject. This is because most conventional marketing thinking takes a broadly managerial perspective without reflecting on the wider societal implications of the effects of marketing activities. In ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Sociology, Work and Organisation

    Seventh Edition

    by Tony Watson ...
    The seventh edition of Sociology, Work and Organisation is outstandingly effective in explaining how we can use the sociological imagination to understand the nature of institutions of work, organisations, occupations, management and employment and how they are changing in the twenty-first century.Intellectual and accessible, it is unrivalled in the breadth of its coverage and its authoritative ... Read more

    $89.99 USD