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Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (Bk Currents)
by John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H Naylor

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (Bk Currents)
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Author: David Wann, John de Graaf, Thomas H Naylor
Foreword: Vicki Robin
Illustrator: David Horsey
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Illustrated
Published: 2005-09-01
ISBN: 1576753573
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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Book Review: a modern disease
Summary: 4 Stars

As the title suggests Affluenza is a modern disease to do with affluence, over-consumption and the materialistic world. The authors use numerous examples to show that affluence does not necessarily improve the quality of life but can just add to stress, information overload, traffic congestion, evaporating spare time and environmental degradation. The section on `treatments' is not quite so convincing , but by then you've got the picture anyway.

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