Toys And Prices 2009

Author : Tom Bartsch
Publisher : Krause Publications
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-18
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0896896668

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Toys And Prices 2009 by Tom Bartsch Pdf

Get details about your collectible post-World War II toys from the same place dealers and auctioneers turn to for reliable pricing and details, reflective of current trends in the toy-collecting hobby, plus, a compilation of new toys to come out in the last year and 2,000+ photos to aid in achieving identification accuracy. Toys & Prices 2008 delivers 95,000 values for 32,000 toys including: Action Figures, Western Toys, Sci-Fi, Battery-Operated Toys, Hot Wheels and Model Kits.

Author : Sharon M. Scott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216156703

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Toys and American Culture by Sharon M. Scott Pdf

Tracing developments in toy making and marketing across the evolving landscape of the 20th century, this encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference guide to America's most popular playthings and the culture to which they belong. From the origins of favorite playthings to their associations with events and activities, the study of a nation's toys reveals the hopes, goals, values, and priorities of its people. Toys have influenced the science, art, and religion of the United States, and have contributed to the development of business, politics, and medicine. Toys and American Culture: An Encyclopedia documents America's shifting cultural values as they are embedded within and transmitted by the nation's favorite playthings. Alphabetically arranged entries trace developments in toy making and toy marketing across the evolving landscape of 20th-century America. In addition to discussing the history of America's most influential toys, the book contains specific entries on the individuals, organizations, companies, and publications that gave shape to America's culture of play from 1900 to 2000. Toys from the two decades that frame the 20th century are also included, as bridges to the fascinating past—and the inspiring future—of American toys.

Author : Ronald L. Jackson,Jamie E. Moshin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780415623070

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Communicating Marginalized Masculinities by Ronald L. Jackson,Jamie E. Moshin Pdf

For years, research concerning masculinities has explored the way that men have dominated, exploited, and dismantled societies, asking how we might make sense of marginalized masculinities in the context of male privilege. This volume asks not only how terms such as men and masculinity are socially defined and culturally instantiated, but also how the media has constructed notions of masculinity that have kept minority masculinities on the margins. Essays explore marginalized masculinities as communicated through film, television, and new media, visiting representations and marginalized identity politics while also discussing the dangers and pitfalls of a media pedagogy that has taught audiences to ignore, sidestep, and stereotype marginalized group realities. While dominant portrayals of masculine versus feminine characters pervade numerous television and film examples, this collection examines heterosexual and queer, military and civilian, as well as Black, Japanese, Indian, White, and Latino masculinities, offering a variance in masculinities and confronting male privilege as represented on screen, appealing to a range of disciplines and a wide scope of readers.

Author : Rebecca C. Hains,Nancy A. Jennings
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030628819

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The Marketing of Children’s Toys by Rebecca C. Hains,Nancy A. Jennings Pdf

This book offers rich critical perspectives on the marketing of a variety of toys, brands, and product categories. Topics include marketing undertaken by specific children’s toy brands such as American Girl, Barbie, Disney, GoldieBlox, Fisher-Price, and LEGO, and marketing trends characterizing broader toy categories such as on-trend grotesque toys; toy firearms; minimalist toys; toyetics; toys meant to offer diverse representation; STEM toys; and unboxing videos. Toy marketing warrants a sustained scholarly critique because of toys’ cultural significance and their roles in children’s lives, as well as the industry’s economic importance. Discourses surrounding toys—including who certain toys are meant for and what various toys and brands can signify about their owners’ identities—have implications for our understandings of adults’ expectations of children and of broader societal norms into which children are being socialized.

Author : Robert Epstein
Publisher : Linden Publishing
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781610351010

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Teen 2.0 by Robert Epstein Pdf

National Indie Excellence Awards, first prize in the Parenting and Family category Arguing that adolescence is an unnecessary period of life that people are better off without, this groundbreaking study shows that teen confusion and hardships are caused by outmoded systems that were designed to destroy the continuum between childhood and adulthood. Documenting how teens are isolated from adults and are forced to look to their media-dominated peers for knowledge, this discussion contends that by infantilizing young people, society does irrevocable harm to their development and well-being. Instead, parents, teachers, employers, and others must rediscover the adults in young people by giving them authority and responsibility as soon as they exhibit readiness. Teens are highly capable--in some ways more than adults--and this landmark discussion offers paths for reaching and enhancing the competence in America's youth.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004538351

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The Future of Teaching by Anonim Pdf

The ‘future of teaching’ represents a technological disruption of moral traditions of teaching and what teaching might become and is a serious concern for the current generation of philosophers in both China and the West.

Author : Robert Gulotty
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226669533

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Narrowing the Channel by Robert Gulotty Pdf

While large, multinational corporations have supported the removal of tariffs, behind the scenes these firms have fought for protection in the form of product regulations, including testing, labeling, and registration requirements. Unlike tariffs, these regulations can raise fixed costs, excluding smaller firms from the market and shifting profits toward global giants. Narrowing the Channel demonstrates that globalization and globalized firms can paradoxically hinder rather than foster economic cooperation as larger firms seek to protect their markets through often unnecessarily strict product regulations. To illustrate the problem of regulatory protectionism, Robert Gulotty offers an in-depth analysis of contemporary rulemaking in the United States and the European Union in the areas of health, safety, and environmental standards. He shows how large firms seek regulatory schemes that disproportionately disadvantage small firms. When multinationals are embedded in the local economy, governments too have an incentive to use these regulations to shift profits back home. Today, the key challenge to governing global trade is not how much trade occurs but who is allowed to participate, and this book shows that new rules will be needed to allow governments to widen the benefits of global commerce and avoid further inequality and market concentration.

Author : Stephen Brown,Sharon Ponsonby-McCabe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134053902

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Brand Mascots by Stephen Brown,Sharon Ponsonby-McCabe Pdf

Tony the Tiger. The Pillsbury Doughboy. The Michelin Man. The Playboy bunny. The list of brand mascots, spokes-characters, totems and logos goes on and on and on. Mascots are one of the most widespread modes of marketing communication and one of the longest established. Yet, despite their ubiquity and utility, brand mascots seem to be held in comparatively low esteem by the corporate cognoscenti. This collection, the first of its kind, raises brand mascots’ standing, both in an academic sense and from a managerial perspective. Featuring case studies and empirical analyses from around the world – here Hello Kitty, there Aleksandr Orlov, beyond that Angry Birds – the book presents the latest thinking on beast-based brands, broadly defined. Entirely qualitative in content, it represents a readable, reliable resource for marketing academics, marketing managers, marketing students and the consumer research community. It should also prove of interest to scholars in adjacent fields, such as cultural studies, media studies, organisation studies, anthropology, sociology, ethology and zoology.

Author : H. Bapuji
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137276483

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Not Just China by H. Bapuji Pdf

This book critically analyzes recalls of toys, carsand other products announced in the U.S. since 1974. By empirically examining the phenomenon from multiple perspectives, including design and manufacturing flaws; supply chain issues; number of injuries and how to manage recalls on a global scale.

Author : O.P. Malhotra, S.K. Gupta & Anubhuti Gangal
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9788121905565

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S. Chand’s ISC Mathematics Class-XII by O.P. Malhotra, S.K. Gupta & Anubhuti Gangal Pdf

S Chand’s ISC Mathematics is structured according to the latest syllabus as per the new CISCE(Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations), New Delhi, for ISC students taking classes XI & XII examinations.

Author : Stephen Harrington
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137472908

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Entertainment Values by Stephen Harrington Pdf

This collection brings together the work of a range of scholars from around the world with different perspectives on one simple question: How can we assess the value of various entertainment products and forms? Entertainment is everywhere. The industries that produce it earn billions of dollars each year and employ hundreds of thousands of people. Its pervasiveness means almost everyone has something to say about entertainment, too, whether it be our opinion on the latest Hollywood blockbuster, a new celebrity couple, or our concerns over its place in the world of politics. And yet, in spite of its significance, entertainment has too-often been dismissed with surprising ease within the academy as a ‘mindless’, ‘lowbrow’ – even ‘dangerous’ – form of culture, and therefore unworthy of serious appraisal (let alone praise). Entertainment Values, challenges this assumption, offering a better understanding of what entertainment is, why we should take it seriously, as well as helping us to appreciate the significant and complex impact it has on our culture.

Author : Gordon Laird
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780771046070

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The Price of a Bargain by Gordon Laird Pdf

A brilliant investigation into the true cost of our bargain economy — and the end of consumerism as we know it Ours is the age of discount: we want more, cheaper, better. But the result is low wages, urban blight, environmental damage, labour abuses, a cookie-cutter model of progress, and now an international economic crisis. With an eye for documentary storytelling and investigative detail, Gordon Laird traces the bargain from its humble dollar-store origins to its place as global juggernaut. From Alberta’s tar sands to China’s factories, from Las Vegas to the Arctic Circle, a single question emerges: how will we survive the bargain?

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 2544 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular American 3D Films by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 2436 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular United States National Film Registry Films by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Amy Sullivan,Collector Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1574326333

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Schroeder's Collectible Toys Antique to Modern Price Guide by Amy Sullivan,Collector Books Pdf

12th ed.: contributing editors, Donna Newnum, Loretta Suiters, and Sharon Huxford.