Catalog

Author: Robin Cherry
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568987392
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Since 1872 when traveling salesman Aaron Montgomery Ward realized he could eliminate the middleman and sell goods directly to his customers, Americans have had an ongoing love affair with the mail-order catalog, which continues undiminished even in today's online-driven world. The practical can find deals on furniture and clothing in L.L.Bean and Sears, the extravagant can consider his and hers matching helicopters, windmills, hot-air balloons, and submarines in the Neiman Marcus Fantasy Catalog; those looking to get their pulses racing can browse Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch; while our inner swashbuckler can travel the world through the pages of the J. Peterman Owner's Manual where Moroccan caftans, Russian Navy t-shirts, and wooden water buckets from rural China entice the imagination. In Catalog: The Illustrated History of Mail Order Shopping, Robin Cherry traces the timeline of these snapshots from American history and discovers along the way how we dressed, decorated our houses, worked, played, and got around. From corsets to bell-bottoms, from baby-doll dresses and Doc Martens all the way to iPods, the history of these catalogs is the history of our lives and our culture. GIs during World War II were kept company by the models in the pages of lingerie catalogs; hockey goalies fashioned makeshift shin guards out of them during the Great Depression, and creative children across the country still play with homemade paper dolls cut from clothing catalogs. A number of celebrities got their start modeling for catalogs: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Katherine Heigl, Matthew Fox, and Angelina Jolie. Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan both got their first guitars from the Sears catalog. Organized into categories such as clothing, food, animals, and houses, author Robin Cherry explores the vivid stories behind Sears, Montgomery Ward, Lillian Vernon, Harry & David, Jackson & Perkins, and of course, 45 years of the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book. Insightful historical commentary places these catalogs in their social context, making this book a visual pleasure and a historically important piece of Americana.

One Tech Action

Author: Crystal Washington
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989214414
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
"One Tech Action" empowers non-techie, busy professionals to easily take advantage of technology to multiply their efforts at home and work, increase efficiency, and spend more time with the people who matter the most to them.

Billboard

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Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Billboard

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Languages : en
Pages : 84

Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game

Author: Matt Forbeck
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302940937
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 149

Book Description
Play as an existing Marvel Super Hero, or create your own hero (or villain!) and build your own Marvel Multiverse saga with your friends. Characters will be built using stats such as Might, Agility, Resilience, Vigilance, Ego and Logic. Players: 2-6 (or more!) Three standard six-sided dice (3d6) needed for play. Gameplay will be governed by the all-new, all-different D616 system developed exclusively by Marvel! Hint: Rolling 6-1-6 will yield FANTASTIC results! The Playtest Rulebook contains an exciting adventure as well as everything you need to know in order to build a character. Once you've begun your campaign, there will be instructions to drop Marvel a line - Your feedback may be factored into the core rulebook and subsequent releases!

Billboard

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Languages : en
Pages : 140

Action Power

Author: Vernon Linwood Howard
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789123755
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 283

Book Description
TESTED TECHNIQUES FOR APPLYING CONCENTRATED ACTION POWER TO MAKE MORE MONEY, GET AHEAD FASTER, INFLUENCE PEOPLE, AND GET EVERYTHING YOU WANT OUT OF LIFE—ALMOST MAGICALLY! Discover now how to get what you want in life, by using the miraculous forces of ACTION POWER. Take your first step to a new way of life that will lead to the highest goals of success you most desire. Once the miraculous force of your ACTION POWER is in full operation you will launch out from your current setup and rise like a rocket to new peaks of personal achievement and financial success. You will think success. You will feel success. You will talk success. You will start acting towards success. “Vernon Howard’s Action Power accentuates the positive. The author gives specific directions for improving one’s thinking and actions. It is pleasant and stimulating reading.”—CLYDE F. GILLETT, M.D. “Regardless of whether you want to sell your products to customers or sell yourself a happier life, you now have the amazing key in your hands. A thrilling guide.”—GENE ADAMS, Editor, Specialty Salesman “If you want to get into self-enriching action, start with this great book. Vernon Howard shows you what to do and how to do it—the easy way.”—MARTHA WALKINSHAW, Cook Realty

In Sync

Author: Andrzej K. Nowak
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030389871
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
This book introduces the reader to the concept of functional synchronization and how it operates on very different levels in psychological and social systems – from the emergence of thought to the formation of social relations and the structure of societies. For years, psychologists have investigated phenomena such as self-concept, social judgment, social relations, group dynamics, and cooperation and conflict, but have discussed these phenomena seoarately.This book shows how synchronization provides a foundational approach to these otherwise distinct and diverse psychological processes.This work shows that there is a basic tendency with many processes to become coordinated and progressively integrated into increasingly larger units through well-defined processes. For these larger units, new and largely adaptive functions emerge. Although synchronization affords progressive integration of system elements to enable correspondingly higher-order functions, the trajectory of synchronization is often characterized by periods of assembly and disassembly of system elements. This occurs when a task is completed and synchronization is no longer essential so that the elements once again operate in an independent fashion. It is argued that the disassembly-resynchronization scenario occurs at all levels of psychological and social reality. The implications of this approach for important issues in interpersonal relations and societal processes are discussed.

Alice Cooper

Author: Gary Graff
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 0760394946
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
This re-release of Alice Cooper at 75 (2023) celebrates the godfather of shock rock’s life in a photo-filled retrospective detailing 75 key releases and life events.

The Politics of Nordsploitation

Author: Pietari Kääpä
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501327305
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
The Politics of Nordsploitation takes a transnational approach to exploring Nordic 'exploitation' films in their industrial contexts, viewing them as not only political manifestations of domestic considerations but also to position Nordic film cultures in a global context. Incorporating a wide range of films, from international cult classics like They Call Her One Eye (1974), homegrown martial arts films like The Ninja Mission (1984) to contemporary crowd-sourced fan productions like Iron Sky (2012), this volume examines the remarkable diversity of genre-based, commercially and culturally exploitative film production throughout the Nordic countries emphasized here through the term 'Nordsploitation'. This volume provides a historical exposition of largely ignored marginal films and film cultural patterns. It also outlines how influential these films have been in shaping the development of Nordic cinema. The effects are visible in the films of the new millennium as previously marginalized practices now enter the mainstream. With sharp insights and new research, The Politics of Nordsploitation redefines the concept of 'exploitation' and its role in small nation cinemas.