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Affluenza The All-Consuming Epidemic

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ISBN-10: 1576753573

ISBN-13: 9781576753576

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor, John de Graaf, David Horsey, Vicki Robin

List price: $21.95
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This text is about personal, social, economic and environmental costs of over-consumption, and what we can do to beat the 'all-consuming bug'. This revision presents symptoms, historical and cultural origins, and proven cures which address today's 'affluenza' with a new urgency, but also hope for recovery.
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/16/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Vicki Robin is a renowned innovator, writer, and speaker. In addition to coauthoring the bestselling Your Money or Your Life , Robin has been at the forefront of the sustainable living movement. She has received awards from Co-Op America and Sustainable Northwest and was profiled in Utne Magazine 's book Visionaries: People and Ideas to Change Your Life . She lives on Whidbey Island in Washington.

Foreword to the First Edition
Foreword to the Second Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Symptoms
Shopping Fever
A Rash of Bankruptcies
Swollen Expectations
Chronic Congestion
The Stress Of Excess
Family Convulsions
Dilated Pupils
Community Chills
An Ache for Meaning
Social Scars
Resource Exhaustion
Industrial Diarrhea
The Addictive Virus
Dissatisfaction Guaranteed
Causes
Original Sin
An Ounce of Prevention
The Road Not Taken
An Emerging Epidemic
The Age of Affluenza
Is There a (Real) Doctor in the House?
Treatment
The Road to Recovery
Bed Rest
Aspirin and Chicken Soup
Fresh Air
The Right Medicine
Back to Work
Vaccinations and Vitamins
Political Prescriptions
Annual Check-Ups
Healthy Again
Notes
Bibliography and Sources
Index
About the Contributors
About Redefining Progress