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Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Other than phenomenal willpower and maxed-out credit cards, what does it take to simply stop purchasing for 12 months? Levine took the plunge--and found it irritating, exhilarating, thought provoking, and humiliating--among many other conflicting emotions. What's an inexpensive substitute for Q-tips? How to best gift a soon-to-be college graduate without spending any money? How to avoid the consumption seduction that lurks in every corner? Levine...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xi, 240 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in todayś message-cluttered world? An eye-grabbing advertisement, a catchy slogan, an infectious jingle? Or do our buying decisions take place below the surface, so deep within our subconscious minds, weŕe barely aware of them? In BUYOLOGY, Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking, three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study, a cutting-edge...
Author
Language
English
Description
It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses. Mothers and children shopped together, and the manager at the video-game store tending to customers. Then the shooters arrived. The chaos and carnage lasted only eight minutes before the killers were taken down. But for those who lived through it, the effects would last forever. In the years...
4) Lost sloth
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's McMullens
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sloth's phone rings and rings. He races across the room to answer the call, but he's a sloth, so it takes a while. The phone says he's won an afternoon shopping spree! Can the sloth get to the store in time to claim his prize? Yes, but it's going to take an impromptu zipline, a missed bus, a park full of trees, an oblivious ice-cream vendor, a rainbow hang glider, and an out-of-control shopping cart to make it happen. As soon as the spree begins,...
Author
Publisher
Rough Guides
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
viii, 344 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sweatshops, fair trade, climate change, ethical investment, organic food . . . shopping can sometimes feel like a moral minefield. Which companies and products should we support or avoid? And which claims of social responsibility can we trust? The Rough Guide to Shopping with a Conscience cuts through the greenwash to answer these and many other questions. The Issues: Do boycotts work? Is buying local better? How can we reduce our impact on global...
Author
Series
Llama Llama volume 2
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young llama wants to play but must go shopping with his mother instead, and so he gets angry and makes a mess at the store. 0
8) Bunny money
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Max and Ruby spend so much on emergencies while shopping for Grandma's birthday presents, that they just barely have enough money left for gifts.
Author
Series
Betty Bunny books volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Betty Bunny's mother takes her and her siblings to a toy store where each is allowed to pick out one item, but Betty refuses to choose just one and throws a tantrum when she learns the alternative is to get nothing.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mmixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of the wedding industry—an industry that claims to be worth $160 billion to the U.S. economy and which has every interest in ensuring that the American wedding becomes ever more lavish and complex. Taking us inside the workings of the wedding industry—including the swelling ranks of professional event planners, department stores with their online registries, the retailers...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Until recently, Elizabeth Cline was a typical American consumer. She’d grown accustomed to shopping at outlet malls, discount stores like T.J. Maxx, and cheap but trendy retailers like Forever 21, Target, and H&M. She was buying a new item of clothing almost every week (the national average is sixty-four per year) but all she had to show for it was a closet and countless storage bins packed full of low-quality fads she barely wore — including...
12) Soft target
Author
Series
Ray Cruz volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten thousand people jam the aisles, the corridors, the elevators, and the escalators of America, the Mall — a giant Rubik’s Cube of a structure with its own amusement park located in the spacious center atrium. Of those people, 9,988 have come to shop. The other twelve have come to kill. Ray Cruz, one of the heroes of Hunter’s last bestseller, Dead Zero, is in the mall with his fiancée and her family. The retired Marine sniper thought he was...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The average American family spends 10 to 15 percent of its take-home pay on groceries. Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half gives them a sure-fire opportunity to reduce that number forever. With the proven plan in this book, the average family can save more than $3,000 a year on its grocery bill. "Can cutting coupons do that?" a consumer might ask. Of course, these money-saving experts teach coupon-clipping strategies, but they don't stop there. Readers...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Two interwined romantic tales take place inside the Chùng-chìng high-rise shopping center in downtown Hong Kong: a policeman falls in love with a snack bar waitress while a house detective gets involved with a female drug dealer.
16) Oliver Elephant
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Noah goes Christmas shopping with his mom and baby sister, he has a brilliant time with his toy elephant, Oliver, playing peekaboo, hiding in a doll's house and dancing Oliver on tables. But suddenly disaster strikes, Oliver goes missing! And, oh dear, the department store is very big. Will Noah ever find his favorite toy again?"--
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. One day, a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and take hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because he feels that it is his sense of duty, refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's eyes on the inside and attempts...
Author
Series
Shopaholic volume 7
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (750 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) has stars in her eyes. She and her daughter, Minnie, have joined husband Luke in LA. Luke is there to help manage the career of famous actress Sage Seymour, and Becky is convinced she is destined to be Sage's personal stylist, and to every A-list celebrity in Hollywood! Things become complicated when Becky joins the team of Sage's archrival. How will charming and supportive Luke deal with this conflict? Will what Becky...
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