The roberts english series a linguistics program (Teacher's edition)

Paul Roberts

Harcourt,brace & World

The Oxford English Programme: Bk.4: National Curriculum Key Stage 4: Pt.B

Etc.

John, O'Connor

Celeste Flower

Oxford University Press

An American Fuhrer: Lyndon Larouche and the Politics of Paranoia

Biographies & Memoirs

St Martins Pr

The End of Oil : The decline of The Petroleum Economy and the rise of a New energy Order

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

BLOOMSBURY

Becoming Mr Nobody: the Philosophy and Poetry of John Cowper Powys

Paupers' Press

Chapelton: The Making of a Town

Isabelle Taylor

University Planning and Architecture: The Search for Perfection

Jonathan Coulson

Taylor & Francis Group

What do soaring debt, endemic narcissism, road rage, political attack ads and killer drones share in common? All are symptoms of a society that moves, reflexively and relentlessly, to exploit the fastest, most efficient means to any end, without regard to cost. This is the 'impulse society' in which we live. In every facet of postindustrial society - the way we eat, the way we communicate and entertain, the way we work, the way we court lovers and raise children, educate and govern - technology and affluence has let us reach our goals with a speed and efficiency unimaginable even a generation ago. But the result is not all milk, honey, and gold. Companies now reflexively maximise short-term gain at the expense of long-term success. Politicians resort with ever-greater speed to nasty campaign tactics, and can count on their damaging claims to spread before the facts catch up with them. Consumers engage in serial over-indulgence and pursue instant gratification of every whim with speed and greed. The costs of living this way are substantial: financial volatility, health epidemics, environmental exhaustion and political paralysis, to say nothing of a growing, gnawing dissatisfaction. In this epoch-defining book, Paul Roberts traces the roots of this problem, damningly revealing how it has permeated society, and cogently argues how it may, perhaps, still be reversed.

The Impulse Society: What's Wrong With Getting What We Want

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

[ THE IMPULSE SOCIETY: AMERICA IN THE AGE OF INSTANT GRATIFICATION by Roberts, Paul ( AUTHOR ) Sep-08-2015 Paperback ] Bloomsbury USA 2015

Bloomsbury USA 2015

The staff at DeLouche College were             delighted when Daphne Bowler, offered the services of her company – Two Wheels             Good – for the annual college holiday. Pedalling through Italy would make a             change from the usual drab locations of previous years. They were all looking forward to             a bit of sun: Andrew Duncan, director of studies and family man; Cynthia Digit, house             mother and widow; Pandora Fulbright, English Literature tutor and carer; and Steve             Durrant, Classics tutor and Jazz musician. Colonel Smirka is in town to enroll his son             at DeLouche, but Lindsey North, History and college ‘lech’, seems             keen to speak to him on other matters.  All is going well in Italy             until Daphne Bowler’s daughter, Louisa, meets Utter Hoppe, alternative artist,             and they run away together. Setting out to find Louisa the DeLouche party enlist the             help of Inspector Giuseppe Grippe. Finding Louisa and Utter, the Inspector tells them             that their lives are in danger from Lindsey North and Colonel Smirka. Events reach a             climax at the Opera when Lindsey North attempts to assassinate Smirka. He fails and             instead becomes the prey himself, pursued by Inspector Grippe.

Two Wheels Good

Trafford Publishing

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