Ding Dong! Avon Calling!

Ding Dong! Avon Calling!

Author: Katina Manko

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-06-04

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0190499842

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The Avon Lady acquired iconic status in twentieth century American culture. This first history of Avon tells the story of a direct sales company that was both a giant in its industry and a kitchen-table entrepreneurial venture. With their distinctive greeting at the homes across the country--Ding Dong! Avon Calling!--sales ladies brought door-to-door sales of makeup, perfume, and other products to American women beginning in 1886. Working for the company enabled women to earn money on the side and even become financially independent in a respectable profession while selling Avon's wares to friends, family, and neighborhood networks. Ding Dong! Avon Calling! is the story of women and entrepreneurship, and of an innovative corporation largely managed by men that empowered women to exploit networks of other women and their community for profit. Founded in the late nineteenth century, Avon grew into a massive international direct sales company in which millions of "ambassadors of beauty" sat in their customers' living rooms with a sample case, catalogue, and a conversational sales pitch. Avon was unique in American business history for its reliance on women as representatives, promising them not just sales positions, but a chance to have a business of their own. Being an Avon Lady avoided the stigma that was often attached to middle-class women's work outside the home and enabled women to maintain the delicate balance of work and family. Drawing for the first time on company records she helped acquire for archives, Katina Manko illuminates Avon's inner workings, uncovers the lives of its representatives, and shows how women slowly rose into the company's middle and upper management. Avon called itself "The Company for Women" and championed its high flyers, but its higher echelons remained dominated by men well into the 1990s. Avon is more than perfumes and toiletries, but a brand built on women knocking on doors and chatting up neighbors. It thrived for more than a century through the deceptively simple technique of women directly selling beauty to women at home.


Adult Piano Adventures Christmas - Book One

Adult Piano Adventures Christmas - Book One

Author: Nancy Faber

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 161677911X

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(Faber Piano Adventures ). Through sacred carols, humorous Santa songs, and winter favorites, adult beginners and those reacquainting with the keyboard can celebrate with the best songs of the season. Adult Piano Adventures Christmas Book 1 features three sections: Beginning Christmas Songs, Christmas Songs in the Key of C major, and Christmas Songs in the key of G major. Contents include: We Wish You a Merry Christmas * Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in a Manger * Jingle Bells * We Three Kings of Orient Are * (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays * It Came Upon the Midnight Clear * O Little Town of Bethlehem * Frosty the Snowman * Jingle-Bell Rock * I'll Be Home for Christmas * Little Drummer Boy * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * and more. Online access to audio recordings of the piano selections is included, as well as orchestrated accompaniments for play-along fun.


Ding Dong Gorilla

Ding Dong Gorilla

Author: Michelle Robinson

Publisher: Orchard

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 9781408312001

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Oh, look! There's a gorilla on the doorstep! He may look fierce, but all he wants to do is play football, or watch a film or make a cake . . . which results in one monstrous MESS! So what would you do if a big beastie rang your doorbell? Michelle Robinson's fabulously funny text is matched by Leonie Lord's bright and feisty art style to create a book with BIG impact.


Peppa Pig Ding! Dong! Let's Play!

Peppa Pig Ding! Dong! Let's Play!

Author: Mark (CRT) Baker

Publisher: Phoenix

Published: 2017-05

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13: 9781503721579

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Ring the doorbell and find out who comes to Peppa Pig's rainy day picnic! 5 additional buttons bring the story to life with fun sounds, and the voice of Peppa and her friends! Matching words with pictures and sounds enhances reading comprehension, and engages young readers at story time.


Ding Dong

Ding Dong

Author: Geoff Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9780439562768

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Timmy is left with the world's meanest babysitter-- and his fairly oddparents.


Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Ding-Dong! Deliveries!

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Ding-Dong! Deliveries!

Author: Publications International

Publisher: PIL Kids

Published: 2008-12-01

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13: 9781412796156

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With Play-a-Sound: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Ding-Dong! Deliveries!, little readers can enjoy a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse adventure as they ring the doorbell again and again. Mickey and Pluto visit the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and find a package with a toy inside waiting for each of them. They go off to thank the generous gift-giver, and as they visit their friends (and ring their doorbells), they find that most of them have also received fun gifts in the mail. When they finally identify the one who gave the presents, they work together, using their new toys, To make a big thank you gift.


Ding Dong! Merrily on High

Ding Dong! Merrily on High

Author:

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781845078614

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Here, beautifully presented in 3-D pop-ups, are five familiar and much-loved carols: O Christmas Tree, Silent Night, We Three Kings, Hark the Herald Angels Sing and Ding Dong Merrily on High. Complemented by the melody line and guitar chords, these carols evoke the traditional spirit of Christmas. Angels climb up to decorate a swirling Christmas tree; a seraphic sphere mysteriously appears in the silent night above a miniature, glowing, Nativity; the Three King's star slowly turns into a rose-window kaleidoscope; hosts of angels wing in flight across the sky; and, in a rousing finale, ranks of small choirboys watch as two choristers take turns to ring the great cathedral bell. This beautiful and ingenious pop-up treasury makes a perfect Christmas gift.


Baa Baa Llama Llama Ding Dong

Baa Baa Llama Llama Ding Dong

Author: Rose Nestling

Publisher:

Published: 2016-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781680521207

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Sing along to 5 favorite farm animal songs! Five adjoining buttons to push and play music with each song.


Ding Dong Circus and Other Stories, 1967-1974

Ding Dong Circus and Other Stories, 1967-1974

Author: Maki Sasaki

Publisher: Breakdown Press Limited

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780957438125

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Ding Dong Circus collects the best of Sasaki Maki's work from alt-manga super magazine Garo. Drawn between 1967 and 1974, the fifteen stories within follow Sasaki's unprecedented exploration of collage methods in comics storytelling. Weaving through references to the Beatles, the Vietnam War, and Andy Warhol, Ding Dong Circus demonstrates that Sasaki was not only a manga pioneer, but also an essential figure in Japanese Pop Art and the critical avant-garde art scene of the 1960s.