Reminder: Benjamin Barber at the InfoShop Today at noon in JB1-080

The InfoShop cordially invites you to a book launch for:

"CONSUMED: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow
Citizens Whole"

Disturbing, provocative, and compelling, Consumed examines phenomena as
seemingly disparate to show how the freedoms of the free market have undermined
the freedoms of the deliberative adult citizen. With brilliance and depth,
Barber confronts the likely consequences for our children, our liberty, and our
citizenship, and shows finally how citizens can resist and overcome the "civic
schizophrenia" in which our impulses as consumers are forever in conflict with
our convictions as citizens.

Monday, May 7, 2007 from 12:00 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building
Lower Level JB1 - 080
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

RSVP REQUIRED * PICTURE I.D. REQUIRED
infoshopevents@worldbank.org

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Author
Benjamin Barber
Benjamin Barber is a Professor at the University of Maryland, as well as
president and director of the international NGO CivWorld, and its annual
Interdependence Day event, and distinguished senior fellow at Demos. An
internationally renowned political theorist, Mr. Barber brings an abiding
concern for democracy and citizenship to issues of politics, culture and
education in America and abroad. Mr. Barber consults regularly with political
and civic leaders in the United States and around the world.

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About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center and development bookstore of the
World Bank. It functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters,
providing internal and external audiences access to over 6000 titles published
by the World Bank, other international organizations, and other publishers on
development issues. It is a space where information and documents on World Bank
development operations, economic data, and strategies, can be read easily and
comfortably at workstations designed for public use. In addition, the InfoShop
hosts book launches, exhibits, seminars, receptions, and other community
outreach events, and also carries videos, posters, CD-ROMs, and gift items.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/InfoShop