Sixteen-year-old Laura journals as her family begins to fall apart after futuristic England begins to ration carbon dioxide due to global warming, and she longs for the days of normalcy.
Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce young readers to the economic functional pairing of goods and services, and describes what each are, where goods come from, scarcity and surplus, the market economy, and other related topics.
Presents a critical survey of malls, analyzing everything from parking lots to restrooms, and looking at the methods businesses use to entice shoppers to buy.
Presents an introduction to how money is spent, in simple text with illustrations, including information goods, services, how money is circulated, different ways to pay, and creating a budget.
Offers case studies and background information on population and consumption that encourage the reader to think critically about problems associated with overpopulation.
100 products and slogans from the 20th-century consumer culture
Cross, Mary
2002
Presents brief histories of one hundred twentieth-century consumer products that became icons, ten per decade, discussing their popularity and their impact on the culture. Includes many print advertisements.
