Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
By: Adam Minter
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the local thrift store, where do they go? Probably acr…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Encouraging consumers to think more seriously about the financial, environmental, and personal costs of their consumption would be a major step in addressing the crisis of quality and the environmental and social impacts of too much stuff. Better yet, it would spur businesses to seek economic incentives to design and market better products. Today's secondhand economy, faltering in search of quality, should have more than it can handle."-Adam Minter, Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
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3.44
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
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2. Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
By: Elizabeth L. Cline
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Format: None pages, Hardcover
Until recently, Elizabeth Cline was a typical American consumer. She'd grown accustomed to shopping… read more
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3. Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike
By: Grant Petersen
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
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4. To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
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5. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
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4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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6. Monkey Boy
By: Francisco Goldman
3.51
Format: None pages, ebook
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7. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
By: J.B. MacKinnon
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more
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Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
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9. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
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3.67
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3.89
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11. Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine: Stories
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3.80
Format: 288 pages, ebook
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12. Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
By: Adam Minter
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
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"Encouraging consumers to think more seriously about the financial, environmental, and personal costs of their consumption would be a major step in addressing the crisis of quality and the environment…"-Adam Minter, Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
13. Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
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4.25
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4.27
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3.74
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20. Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power
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