Study Materials
Readings - Berry, Wendell. "Back to the Land." In The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000. Edited by David Quammen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, pp. 14-21.
- Berry, Wendell. "Getting along with Nature." In Home Economics: Fourteen Essays. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987, pp. 6-20.
- Brubach, Holly. "Mail-Order America." New York Times Magazine (21 November 1993): 54-70.
- Cross, Gary. "Irony of the Century." Chap. 1 in An All-Consuming Century: Why Consmerism Won in America. New York: Columbia Univerisity Press, 2000.
- Gladwell, Malcolm. "Listening to Khakis." The New Yorker (28 July 1997). Available at http://www.gladwell.com/1997/1997_07_27_a_khaki.htm
- Gladwell, Malcolm. "The Science of Shopping." The New Yorker (November 4, 1996). Available at http://www.gladwell.com/1996/1996_11_04_a_shopping.htm
- Gopnik, Adam. "The Winter Circus." In Paris to the Moon. New York : Random House, 2000.
- Hacker, Diana, ed. A Pocket Style Manual. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.
- Jarrell, Randall. "A Sad Heart at the Supermarket." In A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays and Fables. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965.
- Johnson, Diane. "Rolex." In Natural opium: Some Travelers' Tales. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1993.
- Kilbourne, Jean. "The Dream Begins as Soon as You Open the Door." Chap. 9 in Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
- Klein, Naomi. No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. New York: Picador, 2000.
- Rose, Phyllis. "Shopping and Other Spiritual Adventures in America Today." In Common Culture: Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture. Edited by Michael F. Petracca and Madeleine Sorapure. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995, pp. 621-624.
- Rushkoff, Douglas. "They Say." In Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say. New York: Riverhead, 1999, pp. 1-23.
- Schor, Juliet. Introduction to The Overspent American. New York: Basic Books, 1998.
- Singer, Peter. "The Singer Solution to World Poverty." New York Times Magazine (5 September 1999).
- Twitchell, James. "Two Cheers for Materialism." in The Consumer Society Reader. Edited by Juliet Schor and Douglas Holt. New York: New Press, 2000, pp. 281-290.