| Description |
1 online resource (336 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
They fork out 100 million for starter castles, 500,000 for a customized Mercedes, and 1.2 million for a watch. While Generation Deluxe explores the spending patterns of the wealthy, a dark underside emerges: excessive consumerism is creating serious damage to the environment and human life. Simultaneously, the super-rich - and celebrities - are raising awareness and spending multi-millions cleaning up the damage and, as never before, funding solutions to global problems of poverty, hunger, and disease prevention. |
| Contents |
1. The super-rich live it up -- 2. Rich wining and dining -- 3. At their service -- 4. Celebrity -- 5. A rich man's home is his McCastle -- 6. Townhomes, condos, ranches, cabins -- 7. Damage caused by mansions -- 8. Backlash against super-rich mansions -- 9. Fashion and beauty -- 10. Jewellery -- 11. Luxury and eco-travel -- 12. Driving, yachting, flying, biking -- 13. Ecology -- 14. Eco-philanthropy -- 15. The "new" philanthropy -- 16. Fighting world poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rich people.
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Rich people. |
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Wealth.
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Wealth. |
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Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects.
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Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects. |
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Consumption (Economics) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nowell, Iris. Generation deluxe. Toronto : Dundurn Group, ©2004 1550025031 (OCoLC)53939208 |
| ISBN |
1550025031 (paperback) |
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9781550025033 (paperback) |
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1417594047 (electronic book) |
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9781417594047 (electronic book) |
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9781459714632 (electronic book) |
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1459714636 (electronic book) |
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9781550029727 |
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155002972X |
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