Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “joaquin montero”
Skip side bar filters

  • Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene

    by Domenico Branca, Ignazio Camarda, Brittany Chally, Massimo Dell'Ultri, Aide Esu, Emanuela Ferreri, Federico Francioni, Jean-Marie Kauth, John Kloos, Simone Maddanu, Giuliana Mannu0, Joaquin Montero1, Livio Perra2, Javier Romero3, Peter Seely4, Elizabeth G. Dobbins6, Maria Lucia Piga8, Luigi Manca0, Steve Macek1, Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy2 ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of Anthropocene addresses three imminent challenges to human society in the age of the Anthropocene. The first challenge involves the survival of the species; the second the breakdown of social justice; and the third the inability of the media to provide global audiences with an adequate orientation about these issues. The notion of the ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising

    Dreams for Sale

    by John Kloos, Jean-Marie Kauth, Zubair S. Amir, William Scarlato, Chris Birks, Jonathan F. Lewis, Paul A. Catterson, Margaret Salyer, Maria Lucia Piga, Vincent Gaddis, Joaquin Montero, Robert L. Craig, Ed McLuskie, Marian M. MacCurdy, Kathryn Kiick ...
    Translated by Dolores Sorci-Bradley ...
    The study of advertising and its treatment of utopian appeal enhance our understanding of consumer culture. By looking into the advertising page, we also look into consumers’ desires and the process by which these desires are reshaped and rechanneled through images and narratives created solely for the purpose of making a sale.Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising: Dreams for Sale, edited ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Interdisciplinary Essays on Environment and Culture

    One Planet, One Humanity, and the Media

    by Chris Birks, Pierpaolo Duce, Federico G. Francioni, Elizabeth Kubek, Sean Scanlan, Timothy Marin, Joaquín Montero, Kit O’Toole, Maria Lucia Piga, William Scarlato, Anne Marie Smith, Craig Stark, Martin Tracey, Francesco Villa, Elizabeth G. Dobbins, Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    This is a collection of essays about the media, the environment, and the whole of humanity at the brink of extinction. As the demands of overpopulation and of an unsustainable consumer economy dry up existing natural resources and destroy vital ecosystems that we need to survive, the corporate-controlled media saturate worldwide audiences with a barrage of hypnotic images and narratives to ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Status and Culture

    How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

    by W. David Marx ...
    **"Subtly altered how I see the world." —Michelle Goldberg, New York Times“[Status and Culture] consistently posits theories I'd never previously considered that instantly feel obvious.” —Chuck Klosterman, author of The Nineties“Why are you the way that you are? Status and Culture explains nearly everything about the things you choose to be—and how the society we live in takes shape in the process ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Substance of Style

    How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness

    by Virginia Postrel ...
    Whether it's sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a designer toaster, we make important decisions as consumers every day based on our sensory experience. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how Americans live and work. The twenty-first century has become the age of aesthetics, and whether we realize it or not, this influence has taken over ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Future Shock

    by Alvin Toffler ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies—and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises.“Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated.” —The Wall Street JournalFuture Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Chief Culture Officer

    How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation

    by Grant McCracken ...
    Trenchantly on point and bursting with insight, anthropologist Grant McCracken shows American corporations how keeping a finger on the pulse of contemporary cultural trends can change their business practices for the better -- and ahead of the curve.Levi-Strauss, the jeans and apparel maker, missed out on the hip-hop trend. They didn't realize that those kids in baggy jeans represented a whole new ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Extra Bold

    A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers

    by Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Tobias ...
    **Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative (design) career guide for everyone!Part textbook and part comic book, zine, manifesto, survival guide, and self-help manual, Extra Bold is filled with stories and ideas that don't show up in other career books or design overviews.**• Both pragmatic and inquisitive, the book explores power structures in the workplace and how to navigate them ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Consumer Society Reader

    Edited by Juliet Schor, Douglas B. Holt ...
    The Consumer Society Reader features a range of key works on the nature and evolution of consumer society. Included here is much-discussed work by leading critics such as Jean Baudrillard, Susan Bordo, Dick Hebdige, bell hooks, and Janice Radway. Also included is a full range of classics, such as Frankfurt School writers Adorno and Horkheimer on the Culture Industry; Thorstein Veblen's oft-cited ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everything and Less

    The Novel in the Age of Amazon

    by Mark McGurl ...
    **National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistBest Book of Fall (Esquire) and a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 (Lit Hub)What Has Happened to Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism?**Since it was first launched in 1994, Amazon has changed the world of literature. The “Everything Store” has not just transformed how we buy books; it has affected what we buy, and even what we read. In Everything and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Citizen Designer

    Perspectives on Design Responsibility (Second Edition)

    by Steven Heller, Veronique Vienne ...
    Balancing Social, Professional, and Artistic ViewsWhat does it mean to be a designer in today's corporate-driven, overbranded global consumer culture? Citizen Designer, Second Edition, attempts to answer this question with more than seventy debate-stirring essays and interviews espousing viewpoints ranging from the cultural and the political to the professional and the social. This new edition ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Looking Closer 4

    Critical Writings on Graphic Design

    Edited by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Steven Heller ...
    The most stimulating installment yet in the acclaimed Looking Closer series! This enthralling collection of essays assembles some of the most intriguing critical commentary published in professional and general interest design magazines from 1997 to 2000. Over thirty contributors, including Rick Poynor, Kathy McCoy, Lorraine Wild, Veronique Vienne, Jessica Helfand, and others discuss such ... Read more

    $19.99 USD