The author of the international bestseller Why We Buy--praised by The New York Times as "a book that gives this underrated skill the respect it deserves"--now takes us to the mall, a place every American has experienced and has an opinion about.

Paco Underhill, the Margaret Mead of shopping and author of the huge international bestseller Why We Buy, now takes us to the mall, a place every American has experienced and has an opinion about. The result is a bright, ironic, funny, and shrewd portrait of the mall--America's gift to personal consumption, its most powerful...

City Rediscovering the Center William H. Whyte. Foreword by Paco Underhill "Informal, spontaneous interactions give the modern city its vitality, so Whyte's enemies are urban planners who evince disregard and even contempt for street life. Part meditation, part design manual, this marvelously observant tour of cities will please anyone who cares about urban livability."--Publishers Weekly "City punctures commonplace assumptions about urban life in virtually every chapter. . . . There is genuine brilliance here."--New York Times "We who hug the city to us by instinct are...

The author of the hugely successful Why We Buy and The Call of the Mall, reports on the growing importance of women in everybody's marketplace--what makes a package, product, space, or service "female friendly." Underhill offers a tour of the world's marketplace--with shrewd observations and practical applications to help everybody adapt to the new realities.

As large numbers of women become steadily wealthier, more powerful, and more independent, their choices and preferences are transforming our commercial environment in a variety of important ways, from the cars we drive...