Authenticity: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life

HarperCollins UK (2004)
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'Getting real' is the next big thing in Western living - the determined rejection of the fake, the virtual, the spun and the mass-produced, in the search for authenticity. This book explains where our reactions against spin and fakeness come from - and where they are going.

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