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Author: Sharon Korbeck
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 840
ISBN-13: 9780873494687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA price guide to thousands of toys, including Beanie babies, Star wars, Hot wheels, G.I. Joe, models, banks, games, lunch boxes and restaurant premiums.
Author: Brent Frankenhoff
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 808
ISBN-13: 9780873494700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive price guide covers more than 100,000 comics and lists 300,000 prices in three grades of condition. The convenient comic-book size makes it easy for the collector to carry to shows, and the check boxes provide a great way for collectors to keep track of their valuable comic books.
Author: Karen O'Brien
Publisher: Krause Publications
Published: 2006-11-06
Total Pages: 828
ISBN-13: 9780896893337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most thoroughly researched guides to postwar toys features newly expanded categories. The annual price guide helps collectors stay current with access to 94,500 updated values.
Author: ASISH K. BHATTACHARYYA
Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 1072
ISBN-13: 8120325559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis extensively revised third edition serves as a textbook for B.Com. and other professional courses in accounting. It covers the new syllabus of Cost Accounting recommended by U.G.C. for B.Com. courses and also the syllabus of Cost Accounting (PE-II Exam., of ICAI). The text is example based and illustrates each concept by providing solved problems that demand the application of the concept. In addition, under the section, "Review Problems", complete solutions to a large number of prob-lems selected from professional examinations have been incorporated. A key feature of the book is discussion at the end of each solution, under "Points to Remember", that provides insights into the problem. Learning cost accounting using this book will be more enjoyable as the problems are interesting and arranged in order of difficulty.
Author: Gordon Laird
Publisher: Emblem Editions
Published: 2010-10-19
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 0771046073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brilliant investigation into the true cost of our bargain economy — and the end of consumerism as we know it Ours is the age of discount: we want more, cheaper, better. But the result is low wages, urban blight, environmental damage, labour abuses, a cookie-cutter model of progress, and now an international economic crisis. With an eye for documentary storytelling and investigative detail, Gordon Laird traces the bargain from its humble dollar-store origins to its place as global juggernaut. From Alberta’s tar sands to China’s factories, from Las Vegas to the Arctic Circle, a single question emerges: how will we survive the bargain?
Author: Sharon M. Scott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2009-12-09
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing developments in toy making and marketing across the evolving landscape of the 20th century, this encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference guide to America's most popular playthings and the culture to which they belong. From the origins of favorite playthings to their associations with events and activities, the study of a nation's toys reveals the hopes, goals, values, and priorities of its people. Toys have influenced the science, art, and religion of the United States, and have contributed to the development of business, politics, and medicine. Toys and American Culture: An Encyclopedia documents America's shifting cultural values as they are embedded within and transmitted by the nation's favorite playthings. Alphabetically arranged entries trace developments in toy making and toy marketing across the evolving landscape of 20th-century America. In addition to discussing the history of America's most influential toys, the book contains specific entries on the individuals, organizations, companies, and publications that gave shape to America's culture of play from 1900 to 2000. Toys from the two decades that frame the 20th century are also included, as bridges to the fascinating past—and the inspiring future—of American toys.
Author: Karen O'Brien
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 828
ISBN-13: 9780896891524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eric Clark
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-01-09
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0743298896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe American toy business is massive, world dominating, cutthroat, exciting, and increasingly willing to sacrifice our kids in its frantic rush for profit. And yet, for all its rapaciousness, the industry is in the business of delighting and fascinating our children. Toys are one of the most emotive subjects in the world. We all remember our own toys; we care desperately about those we choose for our kids, knowing these objects help shape children's lives. They are also a constantly newsworthy item: every Christmas, which toys are hot -- and the scramble by parents to grab them before the stores are empty -- is front-page and TV bulletin news. The Real Toy Story tells the tales of these toys and of the vast, world-dominating $22 billion American industry that creates them. The rewards for success are enormous: a top toy can earn billions -- H. Ty Warner shot into Forbes's World's Richest People list with his creation of Beanie Babies. The price of failure is just as huge -- the battlefield is littered with the corpses of once-successful toy companies whose multimillion-dollar gambles did not pay off. It is a world of contrasts. The Real Toy Story looks at both sides: at Slinky, Elmo, Barbie, Transformers, and their creators, but also at the dark side of an industry that leads the way in cold-blooded marketing targeted at children. Parents will want to learn about how this seemingly benign industry exploits, sometimes surreptitiously, the many new media: cable television, the internet, CD-ROMs, sometimes even invading the playgrounds to peddle their wares to unsuspecting young people. Perhaps more disturbingly, this hard-hitting book examines the vast gap between the cuddly image of toys and how almost all toys destined for America are actually produced in China under sweatshop conditions. Today the toy industry is in the midst of rapid change. Tapping into the concern millions of adults have about the toys they choose for the children in their lives, this riveting exposé is essential reading for everyone who cares about kids.
Author: Elisabeth Croll
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-26
Total Pages: 746
ISBN-13: 1134220537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring China's consumer revolution over the past three decades, this book shows a continuing cycle leading to excess supply and disappointing demand, at the centre of which lies exaggerated expectations of China's new consumers. Combining economic trends with the author’s anthropological background, China’s New Consumers details the livelihoods and lifestyles of China's new and evolving social categories who, divided by wealth, location and generation, have both benefited from and been disadvantaged by the past two decades of reform and rapid economic growth. Given that consumption is about so much more than shopping and spending, this book focuses on the perceptions, priorities and concerns of China's new consumers which are an essential part of any contemporary narrative about China's domestic market. Documenting the social consequences of several decades of rapid economic growth and the new interest in 'all-round' social development, China's New Consumers will be of value to students, entrepreneurs and a wide variety of readers who are interested in social trends and concerns in China today.
Author: Ashish Aggarwal
Publisher: S. Chand Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 864
ISBN-13: 8121923875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis sixth edition of the book is thoroughly revised and enlarged according to the latest syllabi and trend of the various competitive exams and also taking into consideration the feedback from the readers. Chapters on Trigonometry and Geometry have been included in this edition. New and better short-cut methods, based on logics, to solve the questions have been explained in this edition. Important questions from various competitive exams have been included. This book will also be useful for many competitive exams having objective quantitative aptitude as one of the paper.
