A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities - shopping. We commonly assume that shopping is...
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This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a...
The use of webcam, especially through Skype, has recently become established as one more standard media technology, but so far there has been no...