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Acquired tastes [large print] / by Mayle, Peter.(CARDINAL)709361;
Subjects: Large print books.; Affluent consumers.; Leisure class.; Luxury.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Acquired tastes : a beginner's guide to serious pleasures / by Mayle, Peter.(CARDINAL)709361;
Subjects: Affluent consumers.; Leisure class.; Luxury.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Acquired tastes / by Mayle, Peter.(CARDINAL)709361; Mayle, Peter.Expensive habits.(CARDINAL)377082;
Gentleman's fetish -- Black stretch -- Most costly passion of all -- I'll be suing you -- Which side do you dress? -- Millionaire's mushroom -- Dear old things -- Servants -- In defense of Scrooge -- How the rich keep warm -- Mouthful of black pearls -- Perfect second home -- True cigar -- House guests -- Shirt de luxe -- Conjuring with grapes -- New year's resolutions -- Handmade hotel -- Malt -- Writing habit -- Feeding the hand that bites you -- Private jet -- Genuine $1,000 folding hat -- Manhattan -- Cher ami.A humorous memoir describing "the spending habits of the rich," "everything the well-heeled--and those vicariously so inclined--need to know."
Subjects: Affluent consumers.; Leisure class.; Luxury.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The art of selling to the affluent : how to attract, service, and retain wealthy customers and clients for life / by Oechsli, Matt.(CARDINAL)776116;
Subjects: Affluent consumers.; Marketing.; Selling.; Sales presentations.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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No B.S. marketing to the affluent : no holds barred kick butt take no prisoners guide to getting really rich / by Kennedy, Dan S.,1954-(CARDINAL)767095;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-419) and index.Who are these people anyway? -- The ultra-rich: different than you and me -- The question Freud couldn't answer -- Boys will be boys, no matter their age -- Marketing to affluent gay and lesbian consumers is out of the closet -- Affluent boomers' spending boom -- Those who've gone from poor to rich -- The 3/4 full glass -- Peer deep into their souls -- The affluent e-factors -- They are trying to figure it out -- What are you a merchant of? -- Value in the eye of beholder -- Stop selling products and services -- Products and services for the affluent go mainstream mass-affluent -- How the mass affluent trade up -- Thanksgiving dinner grandma doesn't make -- Money spent on passions -- Money spent collecting -- Money spent on kids and grandkids -- Money spent on pets -- Money spent on women -- Money spent on bling -- Money spent at home -- Money spent dining out -- Money spent on experiences -- Money spent on liberty -- No boundaries anymore -- Recession-proofing your business -- Affluent consumer entrapment -- We know where they live -- You need to choose your words carefully -- The language of membership -- You need to get client referrals on purpose, not by accident -- Banish the ordinary -- How to create unique value from thin air -- Every marketer to the affluent should be in the information business -- Who can have the highest price? -- Price, profits and power -- How to raise prices without raising prices -- Price strategies -- The trouble with having money -- Personal confidence -- Political commentary, in defense of the affluent.
Subjects: Affluent consumers; Marketing;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The velvet rope economy : how inequality became big business / by Schwartz, Nelson,author.(CARDINAL)823613;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-321) and index.Inside the velvet rope. Envy ; Exclusivity ; Ease ; Access ; Security -- Outside the velvet rope. Exclusion ; Division ; Isolation."In nearly every realm of daily life--from health care to education, highways to home security--there is an invisible velvet rope rising, separating Americans into two radically different experiences of life. On one side of the velvet rope is a friction-free existence where, for a price, needs are anticipated and catered to. Red tape is cut, lines are jumped, appointments are secured, and doors are opened. On the other side of the rope, friction is practically the defining characteristic, with middle-and working-class Americans facing a Darwinian fight for an empty seat on the plane, a place in line with their kids at the amusement park, a college acceptance, a hospital bed. We are all aware of the gap between the rich and everyone else, but when we weren't looking business innovators stepped in to exploit it, shifting services away from the masses and finding new ways to serve the privileged. New York Times business reporter Nelson Schwartz offers a behind-the-scenes tour of the velvet rope economy and those who created it: the ship-within-a-ship on Norwegian Cruise Lines that saves the best views for the wealthy, a special pager for donors that reaches San Francisco's top cardiologist, a $4,000-a-night maternity suite, firefighters who save one home but not the house next door. And he shows the toll of velvet rope innovation on the rest of us: long waits for an ambulance, packed highways, school athletics that are pay to play. What's more, as decision-makers and corporate leaders increasingly live on the friction-free side of the velvet rope, they are less inclined to change--or even notice--the barriers everyone else must contend with."--
Subjects: Income distribution; Affluent consumers; Classism;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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Dressing up : the women who influenced French fashion / by Block, Elizabeth L.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Dressing up -- Midcentury tastemakers -- Connections among coiffeurs, couturiers, hairdressers, milliners, and perfumers -- Couturiers and international expositions -- International clientele -- Maison Félix and its U.S. clients -- Gowns and mansions : French fashion in U.S. homes -- Rising prices : the impact of U.S, tariffs -- The underworld and afterlife of French couture in the United States -- Conclusion: Follow the dresses."A provocative look at late 19th-century French fashion, which discredits the couturier as "genius creator" and makes you think differently about the impact of the American women who influenced the market"--
Subjects: Affluent consumers; Fashion; Fashion; Women consumers; Women's clothing industry;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The anxieties of affluence : critiques of American consumer culture, 1939-1979 / by Horowitz, Daniel,1938-(CARDINAL)181129;
1510LIncludes bibliographical references (pages 259-317) and index.Chastened consumption: World War II and the campaign for a democratic standard of living -- Celebratory émigrés: Ernest Dichter and George Katona -- A southerner in exile, the Cold War, and social order: David M. Potter's People of plenty -- Critique from within: John Kenneth Galbraith, Vance Packard, and Betty Friedan -- From the affluent society to the poverty of affluence, 1960-1962: Paul Goodman, Oscar Lewis, Michael Harrington, and Rachel Carson -- Consumer activism, 1965-1970: Ralph Nader, Martin Luther King Jr., and Paul R. Ehrlich -- The energy crisis and the quest to contain consumption: Daniel Bell, Christopher Lasch, and Robert Bellah -- Three intellectuals and a president: Jimmy Carter, "Energy and the crisis of confidence" -- The response to affluence at the end of the century.
Subjects: Consumption (Economics); Consumption (Economics); Intellectuals; Acquisitiveness; Affluent consumers; Consumption (Economics); Wealth; Public opinion;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Beyond self-interest : why the market rewards those who reject it / by Pelc, Krzysztof J.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index."A provocative retelling of the workings of self-interest in contemporary market society, which claims the world increasingly belongs to passionates, obsessives, and fanatics: those who do things for their own sake, rather than as means to other ends. In our capitalist market society, we have come to accept that the way to get ahead is through strong will, grit, and naked ambition. This belief has served us well: it has contributed to making our affluent societies affluent. But does the premise still hold? As Krzysztof Pelc argues in Beyond Self-Interest, this default assumption no longer captures reality. There is a limit to the returns of calculation, planning, and resolve, and in a growing number of settings, this limit has been reached. The true idols of market society, he contends, are those who disavow their self-interest, or at least appear to do so: eco-conscious entrepreneurs, media moguls with a mission, and modern-day artisans catering to a well-educated and ever more socially conscious population of consumers. Increasingly, those who prosper do so by spurning prosperity, or by convincing others that they are instead pursuing purpose, passion, love of craft-anything but their own self-advancement. This is the paradox of intention, and it is increasingly defining our lives. Pelc tells the story of this paradox from its unlikely emergence among a group of British thinkers in the early 19th century to its development over the next two centuries, as it was successively picked up by philosophers, novelists, social scientists, and, ultimately, capitalists themselves. All of whom arrived at a common realization: the appearance of disinterest pays, but only if it is believable-which presents the self-interested among us with a tricky problem. Drawing on three centuries of thought about commercial society and the people living in it, this richly researched account of the cycles of capitalism does not naively suggest that we should reject the market. Rather, it calls on us to treat economic growth once more as its earliest theorists did: as a formidable tool of human development, instead of an end in itself."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Success in business.; Self-interest.; Selflessness (Psychology);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Obsession / by Schrader, Paul,1946-ScreenwriterAuthor(DLC)n 87887565; Litto, George,Producer(DLC)no2004080422; Blum, Harry N.,1932-2004,Producer(DLC)no2006055325; De Palma, Brian,DirectorAuthor(DLC)n 83026611; Robertson, Cliff,1923-2011,Actor(DLC)n 81124524; Bujold, Geneviève,Actor(DLC)n 85327105; Blackman, Wanda,Actor(DLC)no2017012853; Lithgow, John,1945-Actor(DLC)n 87922147;
Music, Bernard Herrmann ; director of photography, Vilmos Zsigmond.Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold, Wanda Blackman, John Lithgow.In 1959, affluent businessman Michael Courtland and his wife are celebrating their tenth anniversary when his daughter and wife are kidnapped and held for ransom. The effort to rescue the girl and her mother ends tragically, and Courtland merely exists, his days consumed with guilt. Many years later, still grieving over his loss, he returns to Florence, the city where he first met his wife, and he meets a young woman who bears a remarkable resemblance to her.MPAA rating: PG.DVD, widescreen.
Subjects: Video recordings.; Detective and mystery films.; Drama.; Vidéos.; Films de détective.; Feature films.; Detective films.; Mystery films.; Kidnapping; Murder; Kidnapping;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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