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Consumerism

    The best books on Academia, recommended by Les Back

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    The best books on Academia - Killing Thinking: The Death of the Universities by Mary Evans

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    Killing Thinking: The Death of the Universities
    by Mary Evans

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    The best books on Academia - Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward Said

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    Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures
    by Edward Said

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    The best books on Academia - The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education by Andrew McGettigan

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    The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education
    by Andrew McGettigan

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    The best books on Academia - Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents by Elaine Showalter

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    Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents
    by Elaine Showalter

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    The best books on Academia - Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

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    Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
    by bell hooks

  • The best books on Academia - Killing Thinking: The Death of the Universities by Mary Evans
  • The best books on Academia - Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward Said
  • The best books on Academia - The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education by Andrew McGettigan
  • The best books on Academia - Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents by Elaine Showalter
  • The best books on Academia - Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

The best books on Academia, recommended by Les Back

Current UK higher education policies, which treat students as consumers, are not only killing thinking but also likely to lead to a financial crisis. And yet, academia is a beautiful vocation, with the power to transform lives year in, year out. University of London professor, Les Back, picks the best books on academia.

The best books on Academia, recommended by Les Back

    The best books on The Trash Trade, recommended by Adam Minter

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    The best books on The Trash Trade - Waste and Want by Susan Strasser

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    Waste and Want
    by Susan Strasser

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    The best books on The Trash Trade - Cash for Your Trash by Carl Zimring

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    Cash for Your Trash
    by Carl Zimring

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    The best books on The Trash Trade - Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

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    Behind the Beautiful Forevers
    by Katherine Boo

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    The best books on The Trash Trade - The Metal Shredders by Nancy Zafris

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    The Metal Shredders
    by Nancy Zafris

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    The best books on The Trash Trade - Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

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    Ship Breaker
    by Paolo Bacigalupi

  • The best books on The Trash Trade - Waste and Want by Susan Strasser
  • The best books on The Trash Trade - Cash for Your Trash by Carl Zimring
  • The best books on The Trash Trade - Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
  • The best books on The Trash Trade - The Metal Shredders by Nancy Zafris
  • The best books on The Trash Trade - Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

The best books on The Trash Trade, recommended by Adam Minter

Recycling is more than just a blue and green bin in your pantry, says journalist Adam Minter – it’s a global trade with centuries of history that stretches from American scrapyards to Chinese e-waste recycling villages

The best books on The Trash Trade, recommended by Adam Minter

    The best books on Consumption and the Environment, recommended by Juliet Schor

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    The best books on Consumption and the Environment - Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu

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    Distinction
    by Pierre Bourdieu

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    The best books on Consumption and the Environment - Econned by Yves Smith

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    Econned
    by Yves Smith

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    The best books on Consumption and the Environment - The End of the Long Summer by Dianne Dumanoski

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    The End of the Long Summer
    by Dianne Dumanoski

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    The best books on Consumption and the Environment - Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken

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    Blessed Unrest
    by Paul Hawken

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    The best books on Consumption and the Environment - Living in Denial by Kari Marie Norgaard

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    Living in Denial
    by Kari Marie Norgaard

  • The best books on Consumption and the Environment - Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu
  • The best books on Consumption and the Environment - Econned by Yves Smith
  • The best books on Consumption and the Environment - The End of the Long Summer by Dianne Dumanoski
  • The best books on Consumption and the Environment - Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
  • The best books on Consumption and the Environment - Living in Denial by Kari Marie Norgaard

The best books on Consumption and the Environment, recommended by Juliet Schor

The author of True Wealth suggests how we can rethink our patterns of consumption and approach our relationship with nature in a new, less damaging, way

The best books on Consumption and the Environment, recommended by Juliet Schor

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