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Berry, Wendell. "Back to the Land." In The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000. Edited by David Quammen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, pp. 14-21.
Berry, Wendell. "Getting along with Nature." In Home Economics: Fourteen Essays. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987, pp. 6-20.
Brubach, Holly. "Mail-Order America." New York Times Magazine (21 November 1993): 54-70.
Cross, Gary. "Irony of the Century." Chap. 1 in An All-Consuming Century: Why Consmerism Won in America. New York: Columbia Univerisity Press, 2000.
Gladwell, Malcolm. "Listening to Khakis." The New Yorker (28 July 1997). Available at http://www.gladwell.com/1997/1997_07_27_a_khaki.htm
Gladwell, Malcolm. "The Science of Shopping." The New Yorker (November 4, 1996). Available at http://www.gladwell.com/1996/1996_11_04_a_shopping.htm
Gopnik, Adam. "The Winter Circus." In Paris to the Moon. New York : Random House, 2000.
Hacker, Diana, ed. A Pocket Style Manual. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.
Jarrell, Randall. "A Sad Heart at the Supermarket." In A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays and Fables. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965.
Johnson, Diane. "Rolex." In Natural opium: Some Travelers' Tales. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1993.
Kilbourne, Jean. "The Dream Begins as Soon as You Open the Door." Chap. 9 in Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Klein, Naomi. No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. New York: Picador, 2000.
Rose, Phyllis. "Shopping and Other Spiritual Adventures in America Today." In Common Culture: Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture. Edited by Michael F. Petracca and Madeleine Sorapure. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995, pp. 621-624.
Rushkoff, Douglas. "They Say." In Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say. New York: Riverhead, 1999, pp. 1-23.
Schor, Juliet. Introduction to The Overspent American. New York: Basic Books, 1998.
Singer, Peter. "The Singer Solution to World Poverty." New York Times Magazine (5 September 1999).
Twitchell, James. "Two Cheers for Materialism." in The Consumer Society Reader. Edited by Juliet Schor and Douglas Holt. New York: New Press, 2000, pp. 281-290.