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Spree : A Cultural History of Shopping Pamela Klaffke
 Book Description Ten years ago, Faith Popcorn declared "the end of shopping" in her bestselling book The Popcorn Report . But from the looks of things, shopping is as pervasive as ever; we are a culture obsessed and beguiled by the desire for consumer goods. Journalist and shopping addict Pamela Klaffke documents the history of shopping, from a time when cattle were currency to the current age of contemporary shopping phenoms like QVC and eBay. Topics covered include: The history of shopping malls and department stores The evolution of retail design Inventions that made shopping easier: the cash -register (1884), the shopping cart (1936), the bar code (1952) Information on the largest fashion retail chain (The Gap, 3,676 stores), the largest retail firm (Wal-Mart, with annual revenues of $191 billion), and the world's largest mall (West Edmonton Mall, at 121 acres) Shopping meccas and customs from around the world The......
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Complete Patent Kit, The (Legal Survival Guides) James Rogers
 Book Description"Nearly everyone is inspired by a great idea--the trick is to protect your brainchild! Filled with valuable information, this title explains what a patent is; why you might need one; what the difference is between patents and trademarks; how to draft specifications and drawings, and how to work through the patent process from writing your application to the licensing of your patent rights. However, The Complete Patent Kit does not stop there. Going beyond just the patent process, it looksat issues concerning inventors both before and after filing a patent application, such as: --Invention documentation --Invention evaluation--will it sell? --International concerns --Ownership, licensing and assignment of your patent --Use and maintenanceof your patent With checklists for the entire process, handy reference charts for quick answers and easy-to-use forms, this is the book for every inventor."...
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Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods---My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine Noelle Howey
 Amazon.comIf the only time you think you've seen a transsexual is on the Jerry Springer show, Noelle Howey's thoughtful, funny memoir of her suburban childhood with a cross-dressing dad may leave you wondering where all the fireworks are. The first half of Dress Codes is like anyone's story of parental neglect. "I had a dad possibly like yours," Howey explains, "sullen, sporadically hostile, frequently vacant." It was her loving mother who eventually confided her father's secret when Howey was 15,by which time it came as a relief that the remoteness, the drinking, the mood swings were not the young Noelle's fault, but the result of her father's constantly stifled "yearning for angora." Although the early chapters are interesting, Dress Codes really takes off at the halfway point, when her father realized he was not a heterosexual male transvestite, but a woman. His sexual transition, and the family's awkward adjustment to it--including the author's inability in high......
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Traffic Safety Leonard Evans
 Book DescriptionBook Description "Traffic Safety" applies the methods of science to better understand one of the world?s most pressing public health problems. More than a million people are killed annually in traffic worldwide. This 2004 book is even better than the author?s 1991 classic "Traffic Safety and the Driver". The present book covers many safety policy topics. "Traffic Safety" goes to the heart of the problem, with unconstrained analyses of the inadequacies of government in one of its chief responsibilities ? to protect life. A dramatic development since the earlier book is that the United States has fallen far behind other countries in traffic safety. Prior to the mid 1960s, the US had the world?s safest traffic. By 2002 it had dropped from first to sixteenth place in deaths per registered vehicle, and from first to tenth place in deaths for the same distance of travel. Over 200,000 more Americans were killed in traffic than would have died if the US......
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Brat Pack Confidential Andrew Pulver
 Book Description Molly Ringwald, Kevin Bacon, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Keifer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Mickey Rourke and John Cusak: they make up the '80s phenomenon that was known as the Brat Pack. But why are some of these actors supersta and some relegated to the wings? The answers are all here in this compelling compendium....
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