Crisis in Candyland
Author: Janice Pottker
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the story of the Mars family, their multinational company, and its successes and failures.
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Crisis in Candyland
Author: Jan Pottker
Publisher:
Published: 2001-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780788199875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 75 years Mars, Inc., maker of such popular candies as Milky Way, Snickers & M&Ms, Dove Bars & Uncle Ben's Rice, has maintained a secret kingdom, hidden from the outside world. Mars is one of the largest family held companies in the world. A secretive clan controls Mars with an iron fist. Headed for a battle over succession, the Mars Family is a bizarre collection of cold & controlling characters, together worth more than $12 billion. Pottker exposes the eccentric personalities of the Mars family & reveals the Byzantine inner workings of Mars. She ponders whether Mars will thrive in the 21st century, or will the empire unravel as family members battle for control & competing businesses.
The Blimperwhirls
Author: Nick Belardes
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2002-11
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 0595259995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre you aware that ghostly toys haunt the dark corridors beneath Santa's village? How about the origins of toy-making elves-do they really come from drops of sugar that are baked to perfection? You'll find these things out and more in The Blimperwhirls, a zany and sometimes scary Christmas story, where Santa suddenly thinks that his magical ways of doing things have become outdated. But look out! In Santa's attempts to change the North Pole, big trouble comes his way, including bubble ships that drop paper package bombs, and a mischievous candy cane-hunting, self-doubting toy that hasn't been seen in ten thousand years: the Imp of Christmas Doubt.
Candy Crisis
Author: Cavan Scott
Publisher: Badger Publishing
Published: 2016-01-02
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1784648051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Adventure Park's new ride goes wrong, Emily, Jacob and Frank find themselves in a land where candy grows on trees! But things aren't as sweet as they first appear. Will their love of candy land them in danger? This series of eight books follows the antics of Emily, Jacob and Frank the hamster as they traverse the perils and wonders of Emily's eccentric grandfather's magical - if overambitious - theme park. Adventure Park has a reading age of just 7-8 and is designed to capture the imaginations of reluctant and struggling readers aged 9-12. The combination of simple language, short sentences and well-developed, humorous characters provide an accessible yet enjoyable reading experience for the age group, without being patronising.
orphans in candyland
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Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Published:
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Conspiratorial Life
Author: Edward H. Miller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2023-04-19
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0226826503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first full-scale biography of Robert Welch, who founded the John Birch Society and planted some of modern conservatism’s most insidious seeds. Though you may not know his name, Robert Welch (1899-1985)—founder of the John Birch Society—is easily one of the most significant architects of our current political moment. In A Conspiratorial Life, the first full-scale biography of Welch, Edward H. Miller delves deep into the life of an overlooked figure whose ideas nevertheless reshaped the American right. A child prodigy who entered college at age 12, Welch became an unlikely candy magnate, founding the company that created Sugar Daddies, Junior Mints, and other famed confections. In 1958, he funneled his wealth into establishing the organization that would define his legacy and change the face of American politics: the John Birch Society. Though the group’s paranoiac right-wing nativism was dismissed by conservative thinkers like William F. Buckley, its ideas gradually moved from the far-right fringe into the mainstream. By exploring the development of Welch’s political worldview, A Conspiratorial Life shows how the John Birch Society’s rabid libertarianism—and its highly effective grassroots networking—became a profound, yet often ignored or derided influence on the modern Republican Party. Miller convincingly connects the accusatory conservatism of the midcentury John Birch Society to the inflammatory rhetoric of the Tea Party, the Trump administration, Q, and more. As this book makes clear, whether or not you know his name or what he accomplished, it’s hard to deny that we’re living in Robert Welch’s America.
Bitter Chocolate
Author: Carol Off
Publisher: New Press, The
Published: 2017-01-03
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1595589848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis shocking exposé of the corruption and exploitation at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industry is “an astounding eye-opener that takes no prisoners” (Quill & Quire, starred review). Bitter Chocolate is both an absorbing social history and a passionate investigation into an industry that has institutionalized abuse as it indulges our whims. Award-winning journalist Carol Off traces the fascinating evolution of chocolate from the sixteenth century banquet table of Montezuma’s Aztec court to the bustling factories of Hershey, Cadbury, and Mars. In what will be a shocking revelation to many, Off exposes how slavery and injustice remain a key aspect of its production even today. In the Ivory Coast, the world’s leading producer of cocoa beans, profits from the multibillion-dollar chocolate industry fuel bloody civil war and widespread corruption. Faced with pressure from a crushing “cocoa cartel” demanding more beans for less money, poor farmers have turned to the cheapest labor pool possible: thousands of indentured children who pick the beans but have never themselves known the taste of chocolate. “Bitter Chocolate is less a book about chocolate than it is a study of racism, imperialism and oppression as told through the lens of a single commodity.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The Economics of Chocolate
Author: Mara P. Squicciarini
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-01-21
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 019103990X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, written by global experts, provides a comprehensive and topical analysis on the economics of chocolate. While the main approach is economic analysis, there are important contributions from other disciplines, including psychology, history, government, nutrition, and geography. The chapters are organized around several themes, including the history of cocoa and chocolate — from cocoa drinks in the Maya empire to the growing sales of Belgian chocolates in China; how governments have used cocoa and chocolate as a source of tax revenue and have regulated chocolate (and defined it by law) to protect consumers' health from fraud and industries from competition; how the poor cocoa producers in developing countries are linked through trade and multinational companies with rich consumers in industrialized countries; and how the rise of consumption in emerging markets (China, India, and Africa) is causing a major boom in global demand and prices, and a potential shortage of the world's chocolate.
Your Family, Inc.
Author: Terry S Trepper
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1317971388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDid you know eighty-five percent of family firms do not survive the third generation? Your Family, Inc.: Practical Tips for Building a Healthy Family Business will help the busy entrepreneur lower this drastic failure rate by providing great tips and practical advice for creating a successful and pleasant environment when working in the family business. Containing unique and valuable hints for building a better business, this book uses specific examples designed for different situations. Filled with suggestions and proven advice, this important guide offers important ideas on deciding which family members should control stock, who should first work in another company to gain experience, and how to determine which individuals should make business decisions, and much more. Your Family, Inc. offers you specific steps to help avoid common problems and pitfalls with such insightful tips as: recognizing the dangers of a family triangle to avoid any problems before they become detrimental to the company realizing the difference between being asked to respond as a family member--parent, daughter, uncle, or son--and when the problem relates to business developing strategies to keep the family firm accountable by developing a group of advisors that may include the corporate attorney, accountant, or CEOs of noncompeting industries making business decisions for the right reasons, and building consensus in the family to support the decisions creating criteria for future leadership in advance by recognizing the direction the industry is taking, the needs of the company and the values of the family From Your Family, Inc., you will discover how healthy families and healthy family firms develop practical decision-making processes which will endure for generations to come. This essential book provides you with practical information to help your family business improve family relations and to positively impact business now and for future generations.
Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature
Author: Susan Honeyman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1136603948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book Honeyman looks at manifestations of youth agency (and representations of agency produced for youth) as depicted in fairy tales, childlore and folk literature, investigating the dynamic of ideological manipulation and independent resistance as it can be read or expressed in bodies, first through social puppetry and then through coercive temptation (our consumption replacing the more obvious strings that bind us). Reading tales like Popeye, Hansel & Gretel, and Pinocchio, Honeyman concentrates on the agency of young subjects through material relations, especially where food signifies the invisible strings used to control them in popular discourse and practice, modeling efforts to come out from under the hegemonic handler and take control, at least of their own body spaces, and ultimately finding that most examples indicate less power than the ideal holds.
