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  • American Trademark Designs

    by Barbara Baer Capitman ...
    This collection of 732 American trademarks and symbols is widely representative of major past and current trends in American trademark design. The marks are arranged in categories that include entertainment, education, real estate, insurance, food and beverage, retailing, transportation, utilities, heavy industry, and others, and are chosen from local and internationally known examples.Reprinted ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

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    by Michael Burgan, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Ted Hammond ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Born on a small farm in rural Michigan, Henry Ford’s humble beginnings were no match for his ambition. Ford quickly created a manufacturing dynasty, bringing affordable cars to the masses and forever changing America and the American workplace. Who Was Henry Ford? details his meteoric rise, and explains how the genius behind the assembly line and the Model T shaped modern American industry. ... Read more

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  • They Made America

    From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators

    by Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer ...
    An illustrated history of American innovators—some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating—by the author of the bestselling The American Century.The real inventor of the steam engine. The creator of the bra. The man who invented modern banking. The creator of the computer operating system. These and scores of others are the characters who populate Harold Evans's rollicking, brilliant history ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Sold! How America's Greatest Sales And Marketing Titans Pulled It Off.

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Robert Louis Stevenson said, "Everyone lives by selling something." It is the principal force driving all commercial transactions and activities, from the executive suite of suits and ties to the trenches of open collar and rolled-up sleeves. Given the relative importance of selling in our quest for achievement and success, it is critical to develop selling skills, to hone and perfect them to the ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Ransom E. Olds: America's First Automotive Pioneer

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of Ransom E. Olds, regarded as the first of the great American automobile pioneers. He not only sold the first car manufactured in America, his company was also the first of the great automobile enterprises, a model and training ground for the Dodge brothers, Henry Ford, Henry Leland (founder of Cadillac and Lincoln), and other automotive trailblazers. His first horseless ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • A Road Well Traveled: Profiles Of America's Great Automobile Pioneers

    by Daniel Alef ...
    The great American automotive pioneers were entrepreneurial inventors and visionaries who changed the American landscape and brought us a new national culture. These pioneers lifted the veil of isolation that enveloped most pre-twentieth century Americans and made it possible for the average person to travel whenever and wherever he or she pleased. Automobiles changed the concept of transportation ... Read more

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  • Selling Opportunity

    The Story of Mary Kay

    by Mary Lisa Gavenas ...
    **A New York Times Editors' ChoiceThe only woman in Forbes’ Greatest Business Stories of All Time and the first woman to chair a company on the New York Stock Exchange, Mary Kay Ash has a life story that reads like a Barbara Taylor Bradford novel**Growing up in Depression-era Texas, Mary Kathlyn Wagner is a dutiful daughter and diligent student with ambition aplenty and no place to use it. Married ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Vacuum Cleaner

    A History

    by Carroll Gantz ...
    House cleaning has been an innate human activity forever but only since the early 19th century have mechanical devices replaced the physical labor (performed mostly by women). Mechanical carpet sweepers were replaced by manual suction cleaners, which in turn were replaced by electric vacuum cleaners in the early 20th century. Innovative inventors, who improved vacuum cleaners as electricity became ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Man Behind The Brand - In The Bathroom

    by Doug Gelbert ...
    Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Maytag, Kellogg. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson or Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let's look at the men behind the names we see in our bathroom. ... Read more

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  • The Dodge Brothers

    The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy

    by Charles K. Hyde ...
    Series series Great Lakes Books
    Biography of John and Horace Dodge and the history of their company.At the start of the Ford Motor Company in 1903, the Dodge Brothers supplied nearly every car part needed by the up-and-coming auto giant. After fifteen years of operating a successful automotive supplier company, John and Horace Dodge again changed the face of the automotive market in 1914 by introducing their own car. The Dodge ... Read more

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  • Great American Hoteliers

    Pioneers of the Hotel Industry

    by Stanley Turkel ...
    During the thirty years prior to the Civil War, Americans built hotels larger and more ostentatious than any in the rest of the world. These hotels were inextricably intertwined with American culture and customs but were accessible to average citizens. As Jefferson Williamson wrote in "The American Hotel" ( Knopf 1930), hotels were perhaps "the most distinctively American of all our ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Rich's

    A Southern Institution

    by Jeff Clemmons ...
    Series series Landmarks
    The storied history of the iconic Atlanta department store.In 1867, less than three years after the Civil War left the city in ruins, Hungarian Jewish immigrant Morris Rich opened a small dry goods store on what is now Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Over time, his brothers Emanuel and Daniel joined the business; within a century, it became a retailing dynasty. Join historian Jeff ... Read more

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