The Kovels are the most trusted source for both the casual and expert collector. With 12,500 actual prices and 3,150 full-color photographs, the guide also features exceptionally well-organized, wide-ranging, and up-to-the-minute information, and includes more tips, marks, logos, and photographs than any other competitive title. Kovels' is the only guide with prices based on actual sales from the previous calendar year, never estimates. Unlike other guides, which focus almost exclusively on English or high-priced items, Kovels' covers all American and international items and includes reasonably-priced goods. The book is organized by categories most sought-after by collectors, including depression glass, dolls, jewelry, furniture, porcelain, and sports memorabilia. Indexes, cross-references, and expert commentary throughout empower readers to collect with confidence and price their own antiques.

Social media and emerging internet technologies have expanded the ideas of marketing approaches. In particular, the phenomenon of the internet in China challenges the common perception of new media environments. Internet Mercenaries and Viral Marketing: The Case of Chinese Social Media presents case studies, textual analysis, media reviews, and in-depth interviews in order to investigate the Chinese "pushing hand" operation from the conceptual perspective of communications and viral marketing. This book is significant to researchers, marketers, and advocates interested in the persuasive influence of social networks.

This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'.

You can save hundreds, even thousands of dollars the next time you go shopping.

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From his experience with salespeople in Fortune 500 companies and his own personal successes, Robert E. Tevis presents you with key negotiation concepts and techniques to turn you into a threat to the professionals. Even if you have never bargained before, you can use these simple and effective techniques to get more for your money.

It's your money. Don't you want to keep it?

This is the complete guide to the local neighbourhoods of London, filled with all the city's best secrets and hidden gems, and now updated with even more great spots! Offering an intimate view of the city, this unique guidebook allows you to explore the capital city's best local neighbourhoods, highlighting the small, locally-known enclaves of independent shops, cafes and public spaces that give the capital its inimitable character. From Columbia Road to Clarendon Cross, there are dozens of tucked away 'villages' in London and this compendium of thirty of the most unique and vibrant is your key to exploring the city in a new way. Whether you want to enjoy a few glasses of pinot gris at a local bistro before catching an independent art-house film in Bermondsey street, or if you would prefer to indulge in a beauty spa before browsing the cheeses, meats and wines of MacFarlane's deli in Abbeville village, this guide will have something to suit all tastes and preferences. With atmospheric photographs, an illustrated map for each village, and a short text that sums up its spirit, history and location, this charming guide is a great starting point to seeing this great city in an entirely new light! Also available in the London Guides series is Quiet London, a guide to some of the capital's most peaceful and secluded spots to visit, for those who want to see a different side of the bustling city.

"New Good Food Shopper's Pocket Guide" packs the knowledgeable information of the original whole foods bible into a concise, easy-to-carry format. Easy-reference entries help grocery-store shoppers navigate their many options when choosing organic, whole, local, and sustainable and ethically produced foods. Focusing mainly on core food products available at large-scale supermarkets and natural foods stores, this well-organized guide clarifies food labels and cuts through food marketing hype so that readers can make choices that suit their politics, palates, and pocketbooks.