Author: Gary S. Becker
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: tastes, accounting
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 1998-03-30
List price: $25.50
ISBN-10: 0674543572
ISBN-13: 9780674543577

Economists generally accept as a given the old adage that there’s no accounting for tastes. Nobel Laureate Gary Becker disagrees, and in this lively new collection he confronts the problem of preferences and values: how they are formed and how they affect our behavior. He argues that past experiences and social influences form two basic capital stocks: personal and social. He then applies these concepts to assessing the effects of advertising, the power of peer pressure, the nature of addiction, and the function of habits. This framework promises to illuminate many other realms of socia

Author: Stephen Gullo Ph.D.
Publisher: Dell
Keywords: tastes, thin
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1998-10-07
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 044061354X
ISBN-13: 9780440613541

Dr. Stephen Gullo, one of America’s most well known diet gurus, shares his new and ground-breaking model for weight control and his dramatically effective Anti-Deprivation Diet. Advice that clients pay thousands of dollars for is offered here.From the Hardcover edition.

Author: Terry Southern
Publisher: Citadel
Keywords: tastes, marijuana, dirt, red
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 1990-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0806511672
ISBN-13: 9780806511672

This collection of Southern’s short pieces -- two dozen hilarious, well-observed, and devastating sketches that expose the hypocrisy of American social mores -- is widely recognized as an underground classic

Authors:Robin C. Westmiller, Raven West,
Publisher: Star Publish
Keywords: scotch, lousy, tastes, blood
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-06-22
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1932993436
ISBN-13: 9781932993431

Anyone who has vacationed in the beautiful Catskill Mountains, knows the Village of Ellenville, and no visit to Ellenville was complete without a stop in Cohen’s Quality Bakery; "Home of the World Famous Raisin Pumpernickel". Cohen s Bakery owners Ruby and Reginia Cohen struggled together for over fifty years to build a lasting legacy for their grandchildren and financial security for themselves in their retirement years, yet it took only a handful of outsiders less than eighteen months to destroy everything they worked their entire lives to acquire. This is the true account of the e

Authors:Tony Bennett, Michael Emmison, John Frow,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cultures, everyday, australian, tastes, accounting
Number of Pages: 327
Published: 1999-10-13
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521635047
ISBN-13: 9780521635042

Accounting for Tastes is the most systematic and substantial study of Australian cultural tastes, preferences and activities ever published. While based on the findings of a survey, the book also includes transcripts from interviews where respondents talk freely about what governs their tastes and preferences in home furnishings, music, books, sports, television programs, and art. It is a book that makes a substantial contribution to the empirical and policy-oriented social inquiry into questions of cultural practices and preferences.

Author: Michael Kammen
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: american, twentieth, century, change, social, culture, tastes
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2000-09-20
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0465037291
ISBN-13: 9780465037292

In American Culture, American Tastes, Michael Kammen leads us on an entertaining, thought-provoking tour of America’s changing tastes, uses of leisure, and the shifting perceptions that have accompanied them throughout our nation’s history. Starting at the point in time that late-nineteenth-century popular culture began to evolve into post-WWII mass culture, Kammen charts the influence of advertising and opinion polling; the development of standardized products, shopping centers, and mass marketing; the separation of youth and adult culture; the relationship between "high"

Authors:Mark Jancovich, Antonio Lazaro Reboli, Julian String
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: tastes, inside, popular, film, oppositional, politics, cult, movies, cultural, defining
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-11-08
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 071906631X
ISBN-13: 9780719066313

This collection concentrates on the analysis of cult movies, how they are defined, who defines them and the cultural politics of these definitions. The definition of the cult movie relies on a sense of its distinction from the "mainstream" or "ordinary." This also raises issues about the perception of it as an oppositional form of cinema, and of its strained relationships to processes of institutionalization and classification. In other words, cult movie fandom has often presented itself as being in opposition to the academy, commercial film industries and the media more generally, but has bee