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Author Minter, Adam, 1970- author.

Title Secondhand : travels in the new global garage sale / Adam Minter.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  381.19 M668s 2019    ---  Available
1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.
Description xix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-291) and index.
Contents Preface: the donation door -- Empty the nest -- Decluttering -- The flood -- The good stuff -- Danshari -- Our warehouse is a four-bedroom house -- Frayed below the stitch -- Good as new -- Enough to sell -- And it lasts forever -- A rich person's broken thing -- More suitcases.
Summary "In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter takes us on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more. Along the way, Minter meets the fascinating people who handle--and profit from--our rising tide of discarded stuff, and asks a pressing question: In a world that craves shiny and new, is there room for it all?"-- Publisher marketing.
Subject Secondhand trade.
Consumer behavior.
Minter, Adam, 1970- -- Travel.
Sales personnel -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Consumer behavior. (OCoLC)fst00876238
Sales personnel. (OCoLC)fst01103846
Secondhand trade. (OCoLC)fst01110628
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.
Added Title Secondhand
Second hand : travels in the new global garage sale.
ISBN 9781635570106 (hardcover)
1635570107 (hardcover)
9781635570120 eBook

 
    
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