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Affinity is a new concept: a new way of thinking. This book examines cultural consumer anthropology. It is about observing and understanding consumer behavior and influencing that behavior. Affinity is all about culture and the way we live; about the artifacts around us and how we feel or associate ...

Chronicles the history of one of the NHL's original six teams, and provides stories from the team's long history....

Story of father and son, of our battles against alcohol and drugs as we both searched to find God. One lived to tell the story, the other did not. Son attracted to the culture of sex, drugs and rock-an-roll. Seventh-day Adventist father has own battles with alcohol and has trouble accepting son's dr...

A talented young artist, commanded to paint the king's courtiers, all of whom wish to be portrayed with improved appearances, struggles with his sense of integrity which demands honest portraiture....

This is a psychological book of Japan best -selling author Duo huhui. It breaks our impression on psychology, which is always intricate and hard to understand. This book takes daily cases as examples and teaches you to analyze psychology easily and read others rapidly in the form of telling stories ...

Decentring the Avant-Garde presents a collection of articles dealing with the topography of the avant-garde. The focus is on different responses to avant-garde aesthetics in regions traditionally depicted as cultural, geographical and linguistic peripheries. Avant-garde activities in the periphery h...

Usar estas receitas poderosas e estratégias para reduzir naturalmente a pressão arterial!Saudações, meu nome é Arnold Yates e eu sou um médico e um fisiculturista. Eu tenho um PHD em fisiologia do exercício. A razão pela qual que eu criei este livro é porque não quero pessoas para passar o que passe...

This Essential Guide covers the key essential elements and knowledge required to understand the fundamentals of audit and assurance. The key topics covered include:• The meaning of audit and assurance• Corporate governance and auditing• The statutory audit• Professional ethics, codes of conduct and...

A fresh talent weaves an engaging tale of love, life, and second chances in this stirring first novel set in a small Southern townFor fans of Billie Letts, Adriana Trigiani, and Lorna Landvik comes this uniquely heartfelt and spirited story from a sparkling new voice. Farm wife Lucy Hatch never drea...

Excerpt from The American Jewish Times, Vol. 14: September, 1948Cecil Roth, the author of The House of Nasi; Dona Gracia, is one of the foremost Jewish historians of the present day. He has a score of books to his credit, among the more recent of them being The History of the Jews in Italy, The Jewi...

For over thirty years, the Oxford C. S. Lewis Society has met weekly in the medieval colleges of the University of Oxford. During that time, it has hosted as speakers nearly all those still living who were associated with the Inklings--the Oxford literary circle led by C. S. Lewis--as well as author...

Radical Trust produces results"Healey brings to the forefront the importance of trust to business effectiveness in a new and fresh way. It takes the alignment of 'what we do,' 'what we say,' and 'who we are' to build trust with others. Business relationships founded on trust may be the single bigges...

Excerpt from Journal and Letters of Col. John May, of Boston: Relative to Two Journeys to the Ohio Country in 1788 and '89 John, our subject, was the youngest of a family of six children; two brothers, Eleazer and William, respectively ten and eight years older, preceding him, and three sisters. Of ...

War is overwhelmingly a male occupation. Yet its victims are often civilians -- many among them women and children....

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with superhuman powers, and now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners--the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny....

The distinguished historian of medicine Gerald Grob analyzes the post-World War II policy shift that moved many severely mentally ill patients from large state hospitals to nursing homes, families, and subsidized hotel rooms--and also, most disastrously, to the streets. On the eve of the war, public...

When her ex-husband, a man with no backbone, buys the movie rights to her first book, writer Nicole Collins discovers that he has become a changed man when a deranged fan-turned-killer starts threatening the lives of those around her. Original....

Jack is searching for the perfect tree—one that he can chop, hack, and stack! But when it becomes too hard to find, Jack stumbles across three unlikely friends who want to show him their perfect trees.In this lively, enchanting story, The Perfect Tree is a reminder to notice the wonders we often ove...

Use this book to find antique treasures at the Tinker Swiss Cottage in Rockford, an elaborate spa in the middle of central Illinois farmland, or Wyatt Earp's birthplace in Monmouth....

The first psychosocial study of the female intelligentsia in Russia, Mothers and Daughters explains how and why women radicals of the nineteenth century diverged from their male counterparts, describes the forces that led women to rebel, and discusses their legacy to future generations. Throughout, ...

This text features six Qing imperial costumes from the University of Hawai'i Asian Costume Collection and four Qing imperial costumes from the Honolulu Museum of Art. The author has explored the concept of Chinese design theory to realize how important the concept of balance and harmony as realized ...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally impor...