The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America

Author: Julian Montague

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2023-10-30

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0226829855

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A taxonomy we didn’t know we needed for identifying and cataloging stray shopping carts by artist and photographer Julian Montague. Abandoned shopping carts are everywhere, and yet we know so little about them. Where do they come from? Why are they there? Their complexity and history baffle even the most careful urban explorer. Thankfully, artist Julian Montague has created a comprehensive and well-documented taxonomy with The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America. Spanning thirty-three categories from damaged, fragment, and plow crush to plaza drift and bus stop discard, it is a tonic for times defined increasingly by rhetoric and media and less by the plain objects and facts of the real world. Montague’s incomparable documentation of this common feature of the urban landscape helps us see the natural and man-made worlds—and perhaps even ourselves—anew. First published in 2006 to great perplexity and acclaim alike, Montague’s book now appears in refreshed and expanded form. Told in an exceedingly dry voice, with full-color illustrations and photographs throughout, it is both rigorous and absurd, offering a strangely compelling vision of how we approach, classify, and understand the environments around us. A new afterword sheds light on the origins of the project.

Shelby and the Lost Shopping Trolleys
Shelby and the Lost Shopping Trolleys

Author: Timothy Price

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-01-22

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1326541072

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Shelby the shopping trolley is having fun in Shelbyville when her friend Carter comes back because he needs her help. Shelby & Carter must venture out of the supermarket to save the lost trolleys. Shelby & the Lost Shopping Trolleys is the second book in the Shelby the Shopping Trolley series.

How to Create a Successful Commercial Website
How to Create a Successful Commercial Website

Author: Fred Cowie

Publisher: Straightforward co Ltd

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781847160966

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A detailed overview of all the essential requirements of a successful commercial website. The reader is guided through all the potential pitfalls of setting up a site, with a focus on topics including the skills required, essential web design, hosting and domain names, shopping carts and secure payment provisions, essential security measures and scams to beware, search engine submissions, effective web marketing and online auction sites.

New Trends in Disruptive Technologies, Tech Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
New Trends in Disruptive Technologies, Tech Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

Author: Daniel H. de la Iglesia

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-07-21

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 3031383443

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This book offers the evidence-based insights into the ethical considerations surrounding disruptive technologies. In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, where breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things, and bioinformatics have revolutionized our world, a critical need arises to reassess our ethical frameworks. This need has given birth to the thriving field of technology ethics, or tech ethics, which has grown exponentially in recent years. Once a niche area of research, it now encompasses a multitude of technology experts dedicated to understanding the societal impact of these advancements and striving for the development of more ethically grounded technology. At the forefront of this movement stands the International Conference on Disruptive Technologies, Tech Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence (DITTET 2023). Serving as a paramount platform for scholars, professionals, and experts, this conference presents an unparalleled opportunity to explore the latest scientific and technical progress and its profound ethical implications. DITTET facilitates the exchange of cutting-edge research on disruptive technologies, fostering knowledge transfer and collaboration among interdisciplinary fields. DITTET 2023 aspires to bring together a diverse range of industry leaders, humanists, and academics, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific advancements and applications of artificial intelligence while examining their ethical dimensions in areas such as climate change, politics, economy, and security. By delving into these crucial topics, the conference aims to unravel the intricate relationship between technology and ethics, paving the way for responsible and conscientious innovation in today's world.

Philadelphia Trolleys
Philadelphia Trolleys

Author: Allen Meyers

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738512266

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Streetcar service arrived in Philadelphia in the 1850s, shortly after the consolidation of the city. After the Civil War, the horse-drawn omnibus gave way to a comprehensive network of streetcar lines with some routes measuring nineteen miles in length. By 1915, the electrification of the streetcar increased the number of routes in Philadelphia to a total of eighty-six. During the trolley's heyday, the city provided a vast test track for such companies as J.G. Brill, Kimball and Gorton Car Manufacturers, and the Budd Wheel Company. The Wharton Railroad Switch Company revolutionized the manufacture of switches and tracks. Of the lines that once operated in Philadelphia, five are still running today. Philadelphia Trolleys contains a variety of rare images, including a postcard of the Point Breeze Amusement Park, photographs of motormen's uniform badges and buttons, architectural drawings, early stock certificates, and a photograph of the Toonerville Trolley used in the silent movies produced by Lubin Studios in the 1920s.

Carty the Shopping Cart
Carty the Shopping Cart

Author: Joseph DeMichele

Publisher: Gatekeeper Press

Published: 2020-01-09

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1642378631

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Carty, the Shopping Cart, is a happy shopping cart that loves to help customers shop and carry their items. Carty especially likes to help Mrs. Sarris, one of his favorite customers. After helping Mrs. Sarris, Carty realizes that she left her sparkling silver pen in his cart. He tries to catch up to her, as she left the parking lot, but he could not. He ends up lost. Being lost is scary, but you have to stop and think of how you can find your way back to where you belong. Could it be a familiar place? Could it be a familiar sound? Could it be a familiar telephone number or street? Carty is on a mission to find his way back to the Supermarket. Will Carty find his way back to the supermarket? Shopping carts are very important to the stores where they belong. This book delivers a message for children and adults alike. Let’s get abandoned shopping carts back to their store owners.

Being Human in a Consumer Society
Being Human in a Consumer Society

Author: Alejandro Néstor García Martínez

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1317175425

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This book offers a new perspective on sociological studies of the consumer society, introducing neglected normative questions relating to the good life and human flourishing - subjects more commonly discussed in fields of moral, political, and social philosophy. With attention to a wide range of subjects, including postemotional law and responsibility, dehumanised consumption and prosumerism, fashion, embodiment, conspicuous consumption, and sustainability, this book analyzes the structural and cultural transformations that can be identified in consumer society. It also offers a critical - but not pessimistic - view of the important question of whether consumption is leading to an increasing isolation, individualization or commodification of human beings, suggesting an analytical framework for understanding consumer culture and human praxis. Bringing together work from across disciplines by scholars in the US, Europe, and the UK to engage with questions concerning our globalized and globalizing world, where consumerism is a keystone for understanding our contemporary culture and its social structures, Being Human in a Consumer Society will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, social theory, and contemporary philosophy.

On The Origins of Self-Service
On The Origins of Self-Service

Author: Franck Cochoy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-24

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1317449746

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Most marketing scholars implicitly consider independent merchants as conservative and passive actors, and study the modernization of retailing via department stores, chains and supermarkets. In this innovative study, Franck Cochoy challenges this perspective and takes a close look at the transformation of commerce through the lens of Progressive Grocer, an American trade magazine launched in 1922. Aimed at modernizing small independent grocery stores, Progressive Grocer sowed the seeds for modern self-service which spread in small retail outlets, sometimes well before the advent of the large retail spaces which are traditionally viewed as the origin of the self-service economy. The author illustrates how this publication had a highly influential role on what the trade considered to be best practice and shaped what was considered to be cutting edge. By displacing the consumer and their agency from the centre of analytic attention, this innovative book highlights the complex impact of social, technical and retailing environment factors that structure and delimit consumer freedom in the marketplace. This detailed critical analysis of the origins of self-service will be of interest to a wide variety of scholars not only in marketing and consumer research, but also in business history, sociology and cultural studies.

Bad Egg
Bad Egg

Author: David Brown

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-06-29

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1326722719

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People who have never met can meet, and even fall in love, in their dreams. But, if you leave your body behind... who is to say that it will be there when you get back?