Book 39: Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture by Juliet B. Schor - 258 pages

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Over the last fifteen years children's spending power has mushroomed to an estimated USD30 billion in direct purchases and another USD600 billion of influence over parental purchases. Advertising and ( Read more... )

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OK, I take it back, 2012 was not my worst year of reading:  2013 was.  Oh, nursing school, way to ruin all my other plans.

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Note: this review is for a book I received through LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program. It will be published on October 1st, 2012 by Raven Books, a division of Orca Book Publishers.

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As McWearie used to say, one's family is made up of supporting players in one's personal drama. One never supposes that they starred in some possibly gaudy and certainly deeply felt show of their own.Having been murdered by his wife's lover in the first sentence of the book, Connor 'Gil' ( Read more... )

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4/5

Since Sybil I have been fascinated by the idea of MPD, therefore it was no surprise that I found this book enthralling.

It's a pretty detailed account of 18 years of therapy identifying, diagnosing, and re-integrating 17 alternate ( Read more... )

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