A Million Truths: A Decade in China by Linda Jakobson, ISBN 0871319195
Income levels have risen sharply in China during the last two decades. Although just 2% of all Chinese have hot running water, virtually all households have televisions. This personal, intelligent book addresses these sweeping changes and how they are forming modern China.
Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping by Rachel Bowlby, ISBN 0231122756
The curious history of shopping and our ideas about it, from the glamorous nineteenth-century department store to our own multi-functional supermarkets
Carried away or loaded down, love it or hate it, we take shopping for granted as one of the pleasures, or burdens, of our lives. Yet we are curiously unaware of how we became the consumers that we are.
In this witty and revelatory book, Rachel Bowlby looks at some of the turning points of twentieth-century consumer history: when department stores gave way to supermarkets; when packaging made everyday things into objects of desire; when self-service created a close, new relationship between shoppers and merchandise. Carried Away looks at arguments about chocolate boxes and bars of soap, at modernist shop windows and supermarket shelves, at Stepford Wives and Rupert Bears -- at the many extraordinary ways that modern shopping and shoppers have been imagined and invented.
Bowlby focuses in particular on the development of supermarkets,...
Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping by Rachel Bowlby, ISBN 0231122756
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Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping by Rachel Bowlby, ISBN 0231122756
The curious history of shopping and our ideas about it, from the glamorous nineteenth-century department store to our own multi-functional supermarkets
Carried away or loaded down, love it or hate it, we take shopping for granted as one of the pleasures, or burdens, of our lives. Yet we are curiously unaware of how we became the consumers that we are.
In this witty and revelatory book, Rachel Bowlby looks at some of the turning points of twentieth-century consumer history: when department stores gave way to supermarkets; when packaging made everyday things into objects of desire; when self-service created a close, new relationship between shoppers and merchandise. Carried Away looks at arguments about chocolate boxes and bars of soap, at modernist shop windows and supermarket shelves, at Stepford Wives and Rupert Bears -- at the many extraordinary ways that modern shopping and shoppers have been imagined and invented.
Bowlby focuses in particular on the development of supermarkets,...
Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping by Rachel Bowlby, ISBN 0231122756
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Laptops and Literacy: Learning in the Wireless Classroom
Laptops and Literacy: Learning in the Wireless Classroom
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The Five Keys to Value Investing by J. Dennis Jean-Jacques, ISBN 0071402314
The investing style that made Warren Buffett the world's wealthiest investor!
Strategies for Identifying Today's Best-Run Corporations--Then Buying Them for Pennies on the Dollar
As an investor, you don't buy stocks; you buy companies. "The Five Key Steps to Value Investing shows you how to ensure that the company you're investing in is solid and wellmanaged and, most important of all, worth more than you are paying.
J. Dennis Jean-Jacques, who made his name as an investment analyst working with legendary value investor Michael Price, presents in the form of a clear framework a time-proven value investing strategy for identifying well-run companies, then investing only in those that are undervalued. Find out here how today's best value investors: Obtain insights and information from a company's financial statement Buy strong, growing companies at a significant discount to their true values Identify and capitalize on events destined to spur stock price appreciation
Accomplished...
The Five Keys to Value Investing by J. Dennis Jean-Jacques, ISBN 0071402314
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Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere
In his unique, funny, and haunting reports from "Elsewhere," Hank Stuever records the odd and touching realities of modern life in everyday places. Elsewhere might be revealed in the tract-house adventures of a home-decor reality show, at a discount funeral home in a strip mall, or in the story of an armed man named Honey Bear in the hunt for his beloved but now missing sleeper sofa which he left in a store unit. "Off Ramp shows us America through the humorous gaze of Hank Stuever, who finds beauty in the midst of the most unlikely and invisible lives and places.
Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere
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Crystal Clear: The Struggle for Reliable Communications Technology in World War II
Quartz crystal— a technology that changed the tide of World War II
Some of the defining leaps in technology in the twentieth century occurred during the Second World War, from radar to nuclear energy. Often left out of historical discussions are quartz crystals, which proved to be just as pivotal to the Allied victory— and to post-war development— as other technologies. Quartz crystals provided the U.S. military, for the first time, with reliable communication on the front lines, and then went on to become the core of some of the most basic devices of the post-war era, from watches, clocks, and color televisions, to cell phones and computers.
In Crystal Clear, Richard Thompson relates the story of the quartz crystal in World War II, from its early days as a curiosity for amateur radio enthusiasts, to its use by the United States Armed Forces. It follows the intrepid group of scientists and engineers from the Office of the Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army as they...
Crystal Clear: The Struggle for Reliable Communications Technology in World War II
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Servicing Digital Televisions by Robert Goodman, ISBN 0790612232
Servicing Digital Televisions by Robert Goodman, ISBN 0790612232
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PANTONE MEU103 Eye-One Display 2
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| All monitors (yes, both new and old) display color differently. The only way to address this is by calibrating and profiling your monitor for greater color accuracy | ||
| Lets you achieve accurate color on all types of displays -- including LCDs, CRTs and laptops | ||
| Eye-One Display 2 saves time and rework so your creative... | ||
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