Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping by Rachel Bowlby, ISBN 0231122756
The curious history of shopping and our ideas about it, from the glamorous nineteenth-century department store to our own multi-functional supermarkets
Carried away or loaded down, love it or hate it, we take shopping for granted as one of the pleasures, or burdens, of our lives. Yet we are curiously unaware of how we became the consumers that we are.
In this witty and revelatory book, Rachel Bowlby looks at some of the turning points of twentieth-century consumer history: when department stores gave way to supermarkets; when packaging made everyday things into objects of desire; when self-service created a close, new relationship between shoppers and merchandise. Carried Away looks at arguments about chocolate boxes and bars of soap, at modernist shop windows and supermarket shelves, at Stepford Wives and Rupert Bears -- at the many extraordinary ways that modern shopping and shoppers have been imagined and invented.
Bowlby focuses in particular on the development of supermarkets, which started in the United States as accidental discount ventures in the 1930s before rapidly settling into the standard stores of suburban malls. But self-service did not have to be massive in scale. Between the two world wars, writers on retail speculated about a new hands-on intimacy between shoppers and goods in the small local store, with no clerk interfering. At the same time, packaging, which after World War II came to symbolize crudely exploitative mass marketing, was a field for modernist experiment, promising a simple, sophisticated aesthetic for all.
Carried Away delves into these and other forgotten histories of twentieth-century stores and their shoppers; after you have read it, theaisles of the local market will never seem quite the same.
Downloaded: The Third Collection of the 5th Wave by Rich Tennant, ISBN 0740706152
Rich Tennant is clearly the "father of the computer cartoon." (Forbes ASAP). When the creator introduced his technology-oriented cartoon panel in the early 80s, computers hadn't yet achieved the status they enjoy today. Now that nearly everyone's got them, The 5th Wave has become a mirror of our dubious attempts to live with, and control them.In Downloaded, Tennant is right on target, and even now more people will be able to relate to the way computers are changing the way we work, live, and play. He features a teacher who sends her students on-line to research Native American culture and discount fares to Hawaii; the optometrist whose Web site's intense graphics cause eye strain; and Santa downloading presents into a slow 14.4K chimney. His clever cartoons give everyone tethered to a computer a delightfully skewed way to view the world.
Downloaded: The Third Collection of the 5th Wave by Rich Tennant, ISBN 0740706152 
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Germans to America Series II by Ira A. , ISBN 084205085X
Germans to America provides both genealogists and researchers of family history with the first extensive, indexed source of German surname immigrants. This entire project was planned to span the years 1850 through 1893, but now the series has been extended. p The series reproduces information from the original passenger lists filed by all vessels entering U.S. ports from abroad. Ships that departed from German ports or carried passengers who declared themselves to be of German origin are included, with first and last names, age, sex, occupation, and province and village of origin (whenever available) provided for each emigrant. A complete index of names is included at the end of every volume.p Germans to America may be ordered by individual volume. Standing orders, which receive a 10% discount, are also welcomed.
Germans to America Series II by Ira A. , ISBN 084205085X
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E-Investing: How to Choose and Use a Discount Broker by Rob Carrick, ISBN 0471645206
More and more Canadians are turning to discount brokers as a low-cost alternative to having professionals manage their money, making the discount brokerage industry one of the fastest-growing segments of the investment world.
On-line investing is cheap and easy, an dyou can set up an account with most discount brokers with just a few dollars. But thousands of Canadians with accounts at discounters have no idea on how to make them work effectively. "E-Investing How to Choose and Use a Discount Broker is your manual for on-line investing.
- Rates the strengths and weaknesses of all the discount brokers in Canada, including cost and service comparisons, and ease of use of discounters' websites.
- Features a questionnaire to help you decide if a discounter is right for you.
- Explains how to do business with a discounter, whether it's face-to-face, on the telephone, or via the Internet.
- Gives step-by-step instructions on how to set up an account and how to get on...
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Brit Volume 1: Old Soldier
Meet the government's last line of defense when it comes to the really messy parts of keeping the world safe... Brit. When super-powered menaces threaten our home soil, send in Brit, a one man killing machine. Indestructible, unstoppable and eligible for a senior citizen's discount.
Brit Volume 1: Old Soldier
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