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Living it Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury
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Living it Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury Hardcover - 2002

by Twitchell, James B

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  • Hardcover

Named one of "Newsweek's" "100 Cultural Elite, " Twitchell takes on America'smost pervasive new religion: luxury spending.

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Columbia University Press, 2002. Very Good. Twitchell, James B.. Living it Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury. NY: Columbia University Press, 2002. 309pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good.
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Details

  • Title Living it Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury
  • Author Twitchell, James B
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.A.
  • Date 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # UTWILIV00CT
  • ISBN 9780231124966 / 0231124961
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.57 x 6.4 x 0.87 in (24.31 x 16.26 x 2.21 cm)
  • Reading level 1160
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Affluent consumers - Psychology, Luxuries - Marketing
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001025674
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.3

First line

If you want to understand material culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century, you must understand the overwhelming importance of unnecessary material.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/15/2002, Page 1195
  • Business Week, 05/27/2002, Page 24
  • Choice, 10/01/2002, Page 318
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/11/2002, Page 67

About the author

James B. Twitchell is professor of English at the University of Florida and the author of many books including Adcult USA, Lead Us Into Temptation, and 20 Ads That Shook the World.

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