The book edit
The book edit
A curation of books to read or gift for holidays
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For those looking for something new to read and something new to gift for the holidays, I put together a list of titles from the areas of taste, culture, sociology, luxury and aspiration, and business and brand strategy.
Taste
Those Things That Hold Us Together: Taste and Sociology
Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Culture
The Field of Cultural Production
The Commercialization of Intimate Life
Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past
Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
Textual Poacher: Television Fants & Participatory Culture
Luxury and Aspiration
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Luster
Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity
Pricing Beaty: The Making of a Fashion Model
The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever
Valuing the Unique: The Economics of Singularities
The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle
Auctions: The Social Construction of Value
Sociology
The Social Construction of Reality
The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life
The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy
Business
This is Service Design Thinking
This is Service Design Methods
Improvisation as a Mindset for Organizational Analysis
It's the Romance, not the Finance, that Makes the Business Worth Pursuing
Productive Friction: How Difficult Business Partnerships Can Accelerate Innovation
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies
The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy
if you had to pick up only one per category; which ones would they be?
This is wonderful! Thank you!