Vance Packard & American Social Criticism
Vance Packard & American Social Criticism

Author: Daniel Horowitz

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780807821411

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Traces the influence of Packard's early life on his works on social criticism and notes his viewpoints in the context of a writer lacking academic affiliation

American Social Classes in the 1950s
American Social Classes in the 1950s

Author: Vance Packard

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Published: 1995-01-15

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 9780312111809

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This abridged edition of Vance Packard's 1959 The Status Seekers presents a picture of American society in the late 1950s that allows students to develop a more accurate and complex understanding of an often-caricatured era. Daniel Horowitz's introduction provides historical context, an assssment of the book's impact, and a discussion of its critical reception.

The Hidden Persuaders
The Hidden Persuaders

Author: Vance Packard

Publisher: Ig Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780978843106

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A discussion of how modern advertising attempts to control our thoughts and desires in order to make us buy the products it produces. Exploring the use of consumer motivational research and other psychological techniques, including subliminal tactics, this book shows how advertisers secretly manipulate mass desire for consumer goods and products. In addition, Packard also discusses advertising in politics, predicting the way image and personality rapidly came to overshadow real issues in the televised age.

The Waste Makers
The Waste Makers

Author: Vance Packard

Publisher: Ig Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781935439370

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A pioneering work from the 1960s about how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods degraded the environmental, financial and spiritual character of western society. It exposed the increasing commercialisation of American life, when people bought things they didn't need or want. It also highlighted the concept of planned obsolescence, the 'death date' built into products. This prescient study predicted the rise of consumer culture and features an introduction by bestselling author Bill McKibben.

The Naked Society
The Naked Society

Author: Vance Packard

Publisher: New York : D. McKay Company

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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Examines the invasion of privacy in the United States by government, business, and education. Describes surveillance techniques and tools of investigative experts.

Seekers
Seekers

Author: Paul Dunion EdD

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2016-08-31

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1480831549

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Do you find yourself living with an ongoing, unquenchable restlessness or passionate curiosity and wondering why this is the case? You can restore your faith in your destiny as a seekersomeone in search of a genuine understanding and experience of home. Seekers: Finding Our Way Home offers a vivid portrayal of seekers as pilgrims questing for home. Seekers are threshold dwellers, and home takes on both an ancient definition of the word a place to linger and an active ideal, involving doing what it takes to make peace with change and therefore with the journey. This exploration presents an account of seeking that strengthens a facility for identifying where to linger and how to move in order to avoid spiritual homelessness. It also offers concrete guidelines for seekers self-care. Strengthen your capacity for presence, imagination, and enchantment, and learn from the example of a heartening illustration of an aging seeker. Encouraging and inspiring, this guide invites you to sustain the faith that seeking was always what you were meant to do.