1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author : Astrid Wendlandt
Release : 2019-10-15
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 519/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis How luxury conquered the world by : Astrid Wendlandt
Download or read book How luxury conquered the world written by Astrid Wendlandt. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dana Thomas
Release : 2007-08-16
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 07X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Deluxe by : Dana Thomas
Download or read book Deluxe written by Dana Thomas. This book was released on 2007-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, [Dana] Thomas—who has been the cultural and fashion writer for Newsweek in Paris for 12 years—has written a crisp, witty social history that’s as entertaining as it is informative.” —New York Times From the author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations focused on growth, visibility, brand awareness, advertising, and, above all, profits. Award-winning journalist Dana Thomas digs deep into the dark side of the luxury industry to uncover all the secrets that Prada, Gucci, and Burberry don't want us to know. Deluxe is an uncompromising look behind the glossy façade that will enthrall anyone interested in fashion, finance, or culture.
Author : David Sheff
Release : 2011-11-02
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 741/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Game Over by : David Sheff
Download or read book Game Over written by David Sheff. This book was released on 2011-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More American children recognize Super Mario, the hero of one of Nintendo’s video games, than Mickey Mouse. The Japanese company has come to earn more money than the big three computer giants or all Hollywood movie studios combined. Now Sheff tells of the Nintendo invasion–a tale of innovation and cutthroat tactics.
Author : Paul Collins
Release : 2009-07-07
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 956/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Book of William by : Paul Collins
Download or read book The Book of William written by Paul Collins. This book was released on 2009-07-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Bard's competitively pursued First Folio traces the author's travels from the site of a Sotheby auction to regions in Asia, throughout which he investigated the roles played by those who have sought and owned the Folios.
Author : Francis Wheen
Release : 2005-07-06
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 521/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World by : Francis Wheen
Download or read book How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World written by Francis Wheen. This book was released on 2005-07-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo, that's what. In How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Francis Wheen brilliantly laments the extraordinary rise of superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria. From Middle Eastern fundamentalism to the rise of lotteries, astrology to mysticism, poststructuralism to the Third Way, Wheen shows that there has been a pervasive erosion of Enlightenment values, which have been displaced by nonsense. And no country has a more vivid parade of the bogus and bizarre than the one founded to embody Enlightenment values: the USA. In turn comic, indignant, outraged, and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World is a masterful depiction of the absurdity of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.
