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Author: Jan Lindenberger
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764309670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work spans the Cabbage Patch Kid collecting phenomena of the 1980s with chapters on Coleco Kids, Toddlers, Babies, and Premies, foreign mass-produced dolls, as well as the inclusion of the original and porcelain CPKs, transitionals and poseables.
Author: Jan Lindenberger
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
Published: 1999-08-30
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780764310317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPicking up where the authors' first encyclopedia (The 1980s) left off, this marvelous book follows the Cabbage Patch Kids license through the 1990s to show the full line of Kids produced by Hasbro from 1990-1994, and all the Mattel Kids produced from 1995-1998. Included is an excellent 85-photo reference for head molds used throughout the '80s and '90s. There's also lots of valuable information about Koosas, fakes and altered Kids in the marketplace, and creative ways to turn shabby flea market finds into beautiful Kids again.
Author: Jan Lindenberger
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764308352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1983, Cabbage Patch Kids dolls inspired a nationwide craze inviting children to "adopt" their very own Kid. Of course, parenthood is a real responsibility--a new baby needs toys, clothing, diapers, and countless other items! Here is a full-color price guide for the vast array of merchandise surrounding the Cabbage Patch Kids, which are becoming as collectible as the dolls themselves.
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: Bruce Wexler
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2009-11
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781602397583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK150 beloved toys--from Woodhaven tin tractors to the Red Ryder BB gun to Woody from Toy...
Author: Don Rittner
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2004-08
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1438109997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains approximately 800 alphabetical entries, prose essays on important topics, line illustrations, and black-and-white photographs.
Author: The Onion
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2012-10-23
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 031613323X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the final book ever published, and the only one you will ever need: The Onion's compendium of all things known. Replete with an astonishing assemblage of facts, illustrations, maps, charts, threats, blood, and additional fees to edify even the most simple-minded book-buyer, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge is packed with valuable information -- such as the life stages of an Aunt; places to kill one's self in Utica, New York; and the dimensions of a female bucket, or "pail." With hundreds of entries for all 27 letters of the alphabet, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge must be purchased immediately to avoid the sting of eternal ignorance.
Author: D.C. Watts
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2007-05-02
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0080546021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKnowledge of plant names can give insight into largely forgotten beliefs. For example, the common red poppy is known as "Blind Man" due to an old superstitious belief that if the poppy were put to the eyes it would cause blindness. Many plant names derived from superstition, folk lore, or primal beliefs. Other names are purely descriptive and can serve to explain the meaning of the botanical name. For example, Beauty-Berry is the name given to the American shrub that belongs to the genus Callicarpa. Callicarpa is Greek for beautiful fruit. Still other names come from literary sources providing rich detail of the transmission of words through the ages.Conceived as part of the author's wider interest in plant and tree lore and ethnobotanical studies, this fully revised edition of Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Names and Their Origins contains over 30,000 vernacular and literary English names of plants. Wild and cultivated plants alike are identified by the botanical name. Further detail provides a brief account of the meaning of the name and detailed commentary on common usage.* Includes color images * Inclusive of all Latin terms with vernacular derivatives * The most comprehensive guide for plant scientists, linguists, botanists, and historians
Author: Beatrix Potter
Publisher: Henry Altemus Company
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught.
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2007-03-20
Total Pages: 735
ISBN-13: 1466804270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
