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Wu, Tim

Summary: "From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch and who coined the phrase "net neutrality"--A revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting," and its transformative effect on our society and our selves. Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers. In nearly every...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 659 WU

Stephens, Doug

Summary: Author and internationally renowned consumer futurist, Doug Stephens, paints a bold vision of the future where every aspect of the retail experience as we know it, will be radically transformed. From online to bricks and mortar, the very concept of what stores are, how consumers shop them, and even the core economic model for revenue, will be will be profoundly reinvented; changes sure to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Figure 1 Publishing 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8 STE
1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 658.8 STE

Thaler, Richard H.

Summary: Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the word "nudge" has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policymakers, engaged citizens, and consumers everywhere. The book has given rise to more than 200 "nudge units" in governments around the world and countless groups of behavioral scientists in every part of the economy. It has taught us how to use thoughtful "choice...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.01 THA

Scott, David Meerman

Summary: "Fandom isn't just for actors, athletes, musicians, and authors anymore. It can be rocket fuel for any business or nonprofit that chooses to focus on inspiring and nurturing true fans. The most powerful marketing force in the world isn't social media, email blasts, search ads, or even those 15 second commercials before a YouTube video. It's fandom. David Meerman Scott and his daughter Reiko are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8 SCO

Sylvester, Kevin

Summary: "Our cellphones, our clothes, our food: All are everyday things we consider essential, but we seldom think of what and who is involved in making them and getting them into our hands. In Follow Your Stuff, award-winning children's author Kevin Sylvester and business professor Michael Hlinka team up again, this time to tackle the complex dynamics of the global economy, examining the often complex...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 SYL

Mezrich, Ben

Summary: "Beat-by-beat account of how a loosely affiliate group of private investors and internet trolls on a subreddit called WallStreetBets took down one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.63 MEZ

Reynolds, Donna

Summary: "Some people believe Americans should make an effort to buy goods made in the United States; others say this it does not matter where something is made. Thanks to allowances, many children are consumers in their own right, and even those who are not will one day have to make ethical decisions about where their money is spent. Through alternating viewpoints, complemented by fact boxes and a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 339.4 REY

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Social Point Reynolds

Thaler, Richard H.

Summary: Offering a study of the application of the science of choice, a guide that uses examples from all aspects of life demonstrates how it is possible to design environments that make it more likely for us to act in our own interests.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009

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Mezrich, Ben

Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich: the book Elon Musk doesn't want you to read. Breaking Twitter takes readers inside the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time--Elon Musk--and the company that represents our culture's dearest hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.872 MEZ

Lindström, Martin

Summary: Reveals pervasive marketing practices used by some of the world's largest companies to manipulate consumers and argues that guerilla market techniques intentionally tap the public's deepest fears, vulnerabilities, and dreams.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8 LIN

Ariely, Dan.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 ARI

Ahuvia, Aaron

Summary: An "exciting and engaging" investigation (Jonah Berger) of the secret, tangled emotional relationships people have with things--drawing on cutting-edge findings from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and marketing. Books, baseball cards, ceramic figurines, art, iPhones, clothing, cars, music, dolls, furniture, and even nature itself. If you're like most people, at some point in your life...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.487 AHU

Crawford, Frederick A.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.834 CRA

Egan, Sophie.

Summary: A program director at the Culinary Institute of America draws on insights from psychology, anthropology, food science, and behavioral economics to examine the good and the bad in American food culture and how it relates to values that define the national character.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 EGA

Howard, Jennifer

Summary: "Offers a fascinating and insightful account of what becomes of the stuff that we accumulate in our homes and lives. It's a powerful reminder of how the deeply personal acts of daily life are shared across families, cultures, economies, and countries, and an account of how one author's struggle to manage her family's clutter led to a deeper understanding of what matters most in all of our...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Belt Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 HOW

Turow, Joseph

Summary: "By one expert's prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants that tell retailers how they feel about specific products as they browse their local stores. The notion may be outlandish, but it reflects executives' drive to understand shoppers in the aisles with the same obsessive detail that they track us online. In fact, a hidden surveillance revolution is already...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8 TUR

Berger, Jonah.

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: Explains why some products and ideas go "viral," citing the roles of word-of-mouth promotion and the Internet.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013

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Schlossberg, Tatiana

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "As we become a more digital society, the gains that have been made for the environment by moving toward a paperless world with more and more efficient devices will soon be or already have been offset by the number of devices in our lives that are always using energy. But many don't think about the impact on the environment of the "Internet of things." Whether it's a microwave connected to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 SCH

Underhill, Paco.

Summary: The science, mechanics, demographics, and dynamaics of shopping.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.834 UND

Anderson, Maggie.

Summary: On January 1, 2009, Maggie and John Anderson, a successful African American couple raising two daughters in a Chicago suburb, engaged in a social experiment to reinvest in the Black community and buy from only Black-owned businesses for a year. Throughout that time the Andersons combed Chicago in search of a Black-owned supermarket, dry cleaner, gas station, pharmacy, and clothing store. Our...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 AND

Goleman, Daniel.

Summary: Both individuals and companies suffer from collective self-deception and blind spots in their thinking about the environment and their impact upon it. Goleman explains the role of psychology in these decision making processes.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2009

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 333.7 GOL

Silverstein, Michael.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.83 SIL

Underhill, Paco

Summary: "An entertaining and timely exploration of how our food - from where it's grown to how we buy it - is in the midst of a transformation, showing how this is our chance to do better, for us, for our children, and for our planet, from a global expert on consumer behavior"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.31 UND

Zuboff, Shoshana

Summary: "Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her time. Her seminal book In the Age of the Smart Machine foresaw the consequences of a then-unfolding era of computer technology. Now, three decades later she asks why the once-celebrated miracle of digital is turning into a nightmare. Zuboff tackles the social, political,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 ZUB

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