"A journalist travels the world to trace the origins of our clothesWhen journalist and traveler Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, he began a journey that would take him from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back again. Where Am I Wearing? intimately describes the connection between impoverished garment workers' standards of living and the all-American material lifestyle. By introducing readers...

"Leading experts on generations Jason Dorsey and Denise Villa reveal the impact Gen Z will have on future markets in this book for leaders, marketers, entrepreneurs, to learn how to recruit, manage, and sell to the newest generation"--

Publisher's description: An evaluation of the sources of illogical decisions explores the reasons why irrational thought often overcomes level-headed practices, offering insight into the structural patterns that cause people to make the same mistakes repeatedly.

"From the best-selling author of Traffic, a brilliant and entertaining exploration of our personal tastes--why we like the things we like, and what it says about us,"--NoveList. From the tangled underpinnings of our food taste to the complex dynamics of our playlists, our preferences and opinions are constantly being shaped by countless forces. In the digital age, a nonstop procession of "thumbs up" and "likes" is helping dictate our choices. Vanderbilt...

Offers a provocative and entertaining tour of America's love/hate affair with shopping, a pursuit that, even in hard times, remains the true national pastime, in a book by the best-selling author of The Number that delves into both "The Sell Side" and "The Buy Side" of the world of shopping.

Sam Malone's drinking problem (which led him to buy the bar Cheers) soured his career as a pitcher. When a young teaching assistant, Diane Chambers is left by her fianceé, she takes a job waitressing at the bar, leading to a rocky, on-again, off-again relationship with Sam. The bar where everybody knows your name is a home away from home for Sam's old Coach, know-it-all Cliff, bitter waitress Carla, and regular Norm, owner of the largest bar tab....

"Set in the American Southwest forty miles north of Juárez,...[the] novel follows a group of customers and employees through the twenty-four hour work cycle as they seek comfort and sustenance inside of the cinderblock walls of a classic American institution--The Superstore."--Publisher.

This book is the author's work revealing how advertisers use psychological methods to tap into our unconscious desires in order to "persuade" us to buy the products they are selling. A classic examination of how our thoughts and feelings are manipulated by business, media and politicians, this was the first book to expose the hidden world of "motivation research," the psychological technique that advertisers use to probe our minds in order to control...