Here is the thorough list and newly updated price guide for the thousands of toys and collectibles distributed by McDonald's restaurants with Happy Meal*r boxes and bags, given out in all countries around the world except the U.S. (they are in the companion volume). Thousands of all-color photographs show the toys, boxes, bags, advertising materials, buttons, pins, value range and variations.
Provides tips on how to start, organize, maintain, and display a collection and includes advice from young people who are currently maintaining collections.
Popular toys that have been offered as premiums by "fast food" restaurants, including vehicles and sports items, are presented in this new addition with current values. Photographs show the groups in alphabetical order by restaurant names from Arby's, Burger King, and Hardee's to McDonald's, Wendy's and many more.
Featuring 900 color photographs, this book provides a complete listing and updated price guide for thousands of toys, promotional items, and other McDonald's collectibles distributed in the United States from January, 1990 through mid-1998.--Back cover.
The toys distributed by the McDonald's Corporation from its start in 1955 through the creation of the Happy Meal concept in 1979 are described here with over 850 photographs and stories about the McDonaldland characters, slogans, signs, and themes. Check-off boxes and index are provided to help in organizing your own collection, plus the authors' established numbering system is used to identify all items in the book.
"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.
The term arthrogryposis describes a range of congenital contractures that lead to childhood deformities. It encompasses a number of syndromes and sporadic deformities that are rare individually but collectively are not uncommon. Yet, the existing medical literature on arthrogryposis is sparse and often confusing. The aim of this book is to provide individuals affected with arthrogryposis, their families, and health care professionals with a helpful guide to better understand the condition and its therapy. With this goal in mind, the editors have taken great care to ensure that the presentation of complex clinical information is at once scientifically accurate, patient oriented, and accessible to readers without a medical background. The book is authored primarily by members of the medical staff of the Arthrogryposis Clinic at Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, one of the leading teams in the management of the condition, and will be an invaluable resource for both health care professionals and families of affected individuals.
This is the only book that combines McDonald's Happy Meals collectibles with miscellaneous items. Over 1,000 color photos feature giveaways, advertising and restaurant materials with toys and manufacturer items. The book lists dates, sizes, marks and current collector values for both unpackaged and in-package items. Photos.
World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wearable sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manufacturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individuals. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future—one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frameworks that advance progress.
