Author:
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
ISBN: 1614288658
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Over a short ten-year time-span, Hodinkee has positioned itself as the preeminent and most distinguished destination for modern and vintage wristwatch enthusiasts. Exiting a career in finance, Ben Clymer decided to fuse his horological and writing passions in order to start a blog discussing everything from new products to vintage wristwatch auctions. Titling his endeavor after the Czech word hodinky, which means ‘little watch,’ Clymer sought to create a platform that was casual and accessible to all levels of enthusiasts—within a few years The New York Times dubbed him the “High Priest of Horology.”
Watches: A Guide by Hodinkee
Author:
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
ISBN: 1614288658
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Over a short ten-year time-span, Hodinkee has positioned itself as the preeminent and most distinguished destination for modern and vintage wristwatch enthusiasts. Exiting a career in finance, Ben Clymer decided to fuse his horological and writing passions in order to start a blog discussing everything from new products to vintage wristwatch auctions. Titling his endeavor after the Czech word hodinky, which means ‘little watch,’ Clymer sought to create a platform that was casual and accessible to all levels of enthusiasts—within a few years The New York Times dubbed him the “High Priest of Horology.”
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
ISBN: 1614288658
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Over a short ten-year time-span, Hodinkee has positioned itself as the preeminent and most distinguished destination for modern and vintage wristwatch enthusiasts. Exiting a career in finance, Ben Clymer decided to fuse his horological and writing passions in order to start a blog discussing everything from new products to vintage wristwatch auctions. Titling his endeavor after the Czech word hodinky, which means ‘little watch,’ Clymer sought to create a platform that was casual and accessible to all levels of enthusiasts—within a few years The New York Times dubbed him the “High Priest of Horology.”
Disney Junior Storybook Collection (Refresh)
Author: Disney Books
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1368074499
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Join all your favorite Disney Junior characters in this fun-filled collection!Solve mysteries with Mira and her friends, diagnose toys with Doc in her backyard clinic, embark on missions with Bingo and Rolly, visit Minnie's Bow-tique, join the Clubhouse's gang, and more all in one book! This beautifully illustrated storybook collection includes more than 250 beautiful illustrations, and 18 stories featuring your favorite Disney Junior characters and shows.
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1368074499
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Join all your favorite Disney Junior characters in this fun-filled collection!Solve mysteries with Mira and her friends, diagnose toys with Doc in her backyard clinic, embark on missions with Bingo and Rolly, visit Minnie's Bow-tique, join the Clubhouse's gang, and more all in one book! This beautifully illustrated storybook collection includes more than 250 beautiful illustrations, and 18 stories featuring your favorite Disney Junior characters and shows.
System
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
National Geographic Kids Almanac 2019
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426330138
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Provides the latest information on a wide range of topics, including animals, culture, geography, the environment, history, and science.-- provided by publisher.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426330138
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Provides the latest information on a wide range of topics, including animals, culture, geography, the environment, history, and science.-- provided by publisher.
Care and Serve
Author: Missionary Upholders Trust
Publisher: Missionary Upholders Trust
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Care & Serve is the magazine that connects the Friend of MUT. Published every quarter this provides updates on every project of MUT and recent happenings. You can download the latest issue or browse through the past issue.
Publisher: Missionary Upholders Trust
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Care & Serve is the magazine that connects the Friend of MUT. Published every quarter this provides updates on every project of MUT and recent happenings. You can download the latest issue or browse through the past issue.
Collecting (Vintage) Watches
Author: Thomas M. Meine
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3744894924
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The authors of this book are neither watchmakers nor specific watch specialists, just dedicated watch collectors. A book for the friends of watches and a guide for the collector or the possible collector-to-be, giving some advice and guidelines, certainly also expressing very subjective opinions. Specific subjects of interest from the multi-facetted mosaic of time, watches and watchmaking as a whole: collecting watches, watches and time, the quartz crisis, the revival of mechanic watches, clocking of watches and the corresponding amplitudes from the pendulum to the atomic clock, adjustment and regulation of a watch, time as a standard unit, changing of the time itself, technical features, magnetism and watches, radium contamination, watch dials, hallmarks, the 'gold rush', things to watch out for when collecting watches and more. Mechanical watches hand wind, mechanical watches automatic, electric watches, electronic watches, quartz controlled electric watches, tuning fork watches, quartz controlled tuning fork watches, quartz watches, watches - radio controlled by an atomic clock. Also including antique- and vintage pocket watches. Over 300 pictures (black and white) of original watches, tools, equipment and others.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3744894924
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The authors of this book are neither watchmakers nor specific watch specialists, just dedicated watch collectors. A book for the friends of watches and a guide for the collector or the possible collector-to-be, giving some advice and guidelines, certainly also expressing very subjective opinions. Specific subjects of interest from the multi-facetted mosaic of time, watches and watchmaking as a whole: collecting watches, watches and time, the quartz crisis, the revival of mechanic watches, clocking of watches and the corresponding amplitudes from the pendulum to the atomic clock, adjustment and regulation of a watch, time as a standard unit, changing of the time itself, technical features, magnetism and watches, radium contamination, watch dials, hallmarks, the 'gold rush', things to watch out for when collecting watches and more. Mechanical watches hand wind, mechanical watches automatic, electric watches, electronic watches, quartz controlled electric watches, tuning fork watches, quartz controlled tuning fork watches, quartz watches, watches - radio controlled by an atomic clock. Also including antique- and vintage pocket watches. Over 300 pictures (black and white) of original watches, tools, equipment and others.
The Decade in Tory
Author: Russell Jones
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1800181728
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
In 2020 the United Kingdom reached a bewildering milestone: ten successive years of Conservative rule. In that decade there were three prime ministers, each in turn described as the worst leader we ever had; ministerial resignations by the hundred; and an unrelenting stream of ineffectual, divisive bum-slurry oozing from 10 Downing Street. The Decade in Tory is an inglorious, rollicking and entirely true account of ten years of demonstrable lies, relentless incompetence, epic waste, serial corruption, official police investigations, anti-democratic practices, abuse of power, dereliction of duty and hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths. With his signature scathing wit, Russell Jones breaks down the government’s interminable failures year by year, covering everything from David Cameron’s pledge to tackle inequality – which reduced UK life expectancy for the first time since 1841 – through the bewildering storm of lies and betrayals that led to Brexit, devastating education cuts, serial mismanagement of the NHS and Boris Johnson’s calamitous response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It will leave you gasping and wondering: can things possibly get any worse?
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1800181728
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
In 2020 the United Kingdom reached a bewildering milestone: ten successive years of Conservative rule. In that decade there were three prime ministers, each in turn described as the worst leader we ever had; ministerial resignations by the hundred; and an unrelenting stream of ineffectual, divisive bum-slurry oozing from 10 Downing Street. The Decade in Tory is an inglorious, rollicking and entirely true account of ten years of demonstrable lies, relentless incompetence, epic waste, serial corruption, official police investigations, anti-democratic practices, abuse of power, dereliction of duty and hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths. With his signature scathing wit, Russell Jones breaks down the government’s interminable failures year by year, covering everything from David Cameron’s pledge to tackle inequality – which reduced UK life expectancy for the first time since 1841 – through the bewildering storm of lies and betrayals that led to Brexit, devastating education cuts, serial mismanagement of the NHS and Boris Johnson’s calamitous response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It will leave you gasping and wondering: can things possibly get any worse?
Apple Watch For Dummies
Author: Marc Saltzman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119658667
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Get connected with Apple Watch The new and improved Apple Watch does it all—tells time, tracks your fitness, monitors your health, keeps you connected, and so much more! Apple Watch for Dummies covers the latest series and version of Apple Watch, giving you the lowdown on the new WatchOS. You’ll learn how to use all the exciting new features, watch faces, improvements to Siri, and how to customize your Apple Watch to suit your needs! From picking the right watch model and learning the “newbie” basics to must-have apps, troubleshooting, and beyond, this book will help you wrap your head around the Apple Watch! Send and receive text message and e-mails Use Siri to control Apple Watch with your voice Taking advantage of advanced health and fitness features Adjust Apple Watch settings to meet your needs Push Apple Watch to its limits with advanced techniques Whether you’re a beginner or already an Apple Watch veteran, read this book to get a handle on all the features and tools of the latest and greatest Apple Watch.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119658667
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Get connected with Apple Watch The new and improved Apple Watch does it all—tells time, tracks your fitness, monitors your health, keeps you connected, and so much more! Apple Watch for Dummies covers the latest series and version of Apple Watch, giving you the lowdown on the new WatchOS. You’ll learn how to use all the exciting new features, watch faces, improvements to Siri, and how to customize your Apple Watch to suit your needs! From picking the right watch model and learning the “newbie” basics to must-have apps, troubleshooting, and beyond, this book will help you wrap your head around the Apple Watch! Send and receive text message and e-mails Use Siri to control Apple Watch with your voice Taking advantage of advanced health and fitness features Adjust Apple Watch settings to meet your needs Push Apple Watch to its limits with advanced techniques Whether you’re a beginner or already an Apple Watch veteran, read this book to get a handle on all the features and tools of the latest and greatest Apple Watch.
Democratizing Luxury
Author: Annika A. Culver
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 082489670X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key historical moments assigned value, or "luxury," to mass-produced products as an important business model. Japanese name-brand luxury evolved alongside a consumer society emerging in the late nineteenth century, with iconic companies whose names became associated with quality and style. At the same time, Western ideas of modernity merged with earlier artisanal ideals to create Japanese connotations of luxury for readily accessible products. Businesses manufactured items at all price points to increase consumer attainability, while starkly curtailing production for limited editions to augment desirability. Between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, control over family disposable income transformed Japanese middle-class women into an important market. Growth of purchasing power among women corresponded with Japanese goods diffusing throughout the empire, and globally after the Asia-Pacific war (1931–1945). This book offers case studies that examine affordable luxury consumer items often advertised to women, including drinks, beauty products, fashion, and timepieces. Japanese companies have capitalized on affordable luxury since a flourishing domestic mercantile economy began in the Tokugawa period (1603–1868), showcasing brand-name shops, renowned artisans, and mass-produced woodblock prints by famous artists. In the late nineteenth century, personalized service expanded within department stores like Mitsukoshi, Shiseidō cosmetic counters, and designer boutiques. Shiseidō now globally markets invented traditions of omotenashi, Japanese ”values” of hospitality expressed in purchasing and consuming its products. In postwar times, when a thriving democracy and middle-class were tied to greater disposable income and consumerism, companies rebuilt a growing consumer base among cautious shoppers: democratizing luxury at reasonable prices and maintaining business patterns of accessibility, high quality, and exemplary service. Nationalism amid economic success soon blended with myths of unique Japanese identity in a mass consumer society, suffused by commodity fetishism with widely available brand names. As the first comprehensive history of iconic Japanese name brands and their unique connotations of luxury and accessibility in modern Japan and elsewhere, Democratizing Luxury explores company histories and reveals strategies that lead customers to consume these alluring commodities.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 082489670X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key historical moments assigned value, or "luxury," to mass-produced products as an important business model. Japanese name-brand luxury evolved alongside a consumer society emerging in the late nineteenth century, with iconic companies whose names became associated with quality and style. At the same time, Western ideas of modernity merged with earlier artisanal ideals to create Japanese connotations of luxury for readily accessible products. Businesses manufactured items at all price points to increase consumer attainability, while starkly curtailing production for limited editions to augment desirability. Between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, control over family disposable income transformed Japanese middle-class women into an important market. Growth of purchasing power among women corresponded with Japanese goods diffusing throughout the empire, and globally after the Asia-Pacific war (1931–1945). This book offers case studies that examine affordable luxury consumer items often advertised to women, including drinks, beauty products, fashion, and timepieces. Japanese companies have capitalized on affordable luxury since a flourishing domestic mercantile economy began in the Tokugawa period (1603–1868), showcasing brand-name shops, renowned artisans, and mass-produced woodblock prints by famous artists. In the late nineteenth century, personalized service expanded within department stores like Mitsukoshi, Shiseidō cosmetic counters, and designer boutiques. Shiseidō now globally markets invented traditions of omotenashi, Japanese ”values” of hospitality expressed in purchasing and consuming its products. In postwar times, when a thriving democracy and middle-class were tied to greater disposable income and consumerism, companies rebuilt a growing consumer base among cautious shoppers: democratizing luxury at reasonable prices and maintaining business patterns of accessibility, high quality, and exemplary service. Nationalism amid economic success soon blended with myths of unique Japanese identity in a mass consumer society, suffused by commodity fetishism with widely available brand names. As the first comprehensive history of iconic Japanese name brands and their unique connotations of luxury and accessibility in modern Japan and elsewhere, Democratizing Luxury explores company histories and reveals strategies that lead customers to consume these alluring commodities.
A General History of Horology
Author: Turner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198863918
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
A General History of Horology describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. In geographical scope it ranges from East Asia to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts, and there is also discussion of the literature, the historiography and the collecting of the subject. The book features the use of case studies to represent larger topics that cannot be completely covered in a single book. The international body of authors have endeavoured to offer a fully world-wide survey accessible to students, historians, collectors, and the general reader, based on a firm understanding of the technical basis of the subject. At the same time as the work offers a synthesis of current knowledge of the subject, it also incorporates the results of some fundamamental, new and original research.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198863918
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
A General History of Horology describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. In geographical scope it ranges from East Asia to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts, and there is also discussion of the literature, the historiography and the collecting of the subject. The book features the use of case studies to represent larger topics that cannot be completely covered in a single book. The international body of authors have endeavoured to offer a fully world-wide survey accessible to students, historians, collectors, and the general reader, based on a firm understanding of the technical basis of the subject. At the same time as the work offers a synthesis of current knowledge of the subject, it also incorporates the results of some fundamamental, new and original research.