After a little girl, who is dressed like a reindeer, crashes Coyote's solstice party, she brings them to a mall where Coyote has fun shopping--until he realizes he needs to pay for everything.

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Have you ever bought a toy at a store? Have you had a haircut or ordered food in a restaurant? Then you've used goods and services! Goods and services are everywhere. They're in stores, homes, schools, restaurants, farms, and factories. So, what is a good? And what's a service? Read this book to find out.

Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo-hes just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided to change his life by saying goodbye to everything he didnt absolutely need. The effects were remarkable: Sasaki gained true freedom, new focus, and a real sense of gratitude for everything around him. In Goodbye, Things Sasaki modestly shares his personal...

A well-respected neuropsychiatrist, combining philosophical and historical perspectives with the latest discoveries in behavioral neuroscience, reveals how we can heal our society from compulsiveness, materialistic tendencies and crushing debt.

This book examines the fundamental questions surrounding the issue of consumerism today, including : When did consumerism begin? Why do businesses advertise? Are children affected by consumerism? And how does consumerism affect poor countries?

Until a few hundred years ago, people were embarrassed to buy bread in a store. Families took pride in making almost everything they owned. These days, many people take pride in buying as much as possible! New clothes, a speedier bicycle, the latest phone. If we've got money, someone can sell us a product that will supposedly make our lives better. But each year, humanity uses resources equivalent to nearly one and a half Earths, and we're still not...

Looks at the history of the growth of consumerism, exposing the international nature of its expansion through the last six hundred years, and the challenges it poses to the planet. "What we consume has become a central-- perhaps the central-- feature of modern life. Our economies live or die by spending, we increasingly define ourselves by our possessions, and this ever-richer lifestyle has had an extraordinary impact on our planet. How have we come...