The Waste Makers
โ Scribed by Vance Packard
- Publisher
- IG Publishing
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 200 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1935439383
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
An exposรฉ of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals." Introduction by Bill McKibben.
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