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Shoplifting is a practice that has been engaged in for centuries, but it was only after the Civil War that the prevalence of shoplifting and societal awareness of it, became significant. In the 1860s the typical shoplifter was from the lower classes; by 1900 it was an upper-class woman who shoplifted from a huge department store "because" she was a "kleptomaniac", and in the 1960s it was teenagers stealing for kicks. Shoplifting: A Social History looks at the activity of shoplifting for the last 140 years: the types of people singled out as the principal offenders, retailers' ambivalent responses to the activity, selective prosecution, the utilization of high-tech antitheft devices, and suing shoplifters to recover costs. Also examined are media accounts which have often used exaggerated numbers when discussing the activity and the effect of private justice on the offense. Discrepancies in treatment of lower-class women versus "respectable" women shoplifters will be of interest to women's studies scholars.
One of the great obsessions of the twentieth century, the automobile has had an enormous impact on daily life and has been designed with great diversity and imagination. These lavishly illustrated volumes present the extraordinary world of the automobile, from sleek sports cars to the ultimate in high-powered, high performance machines.
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This flexible and practical hands-on text teaches students in business planning how to develop and write effective business plans. Business planning software is packaged with the text and was developed by the authors to integrate completely with the text.The text is brief enough to be covered in one quarter or semester and is designed to appeal to students with little or no business background. Students gain a solid understanding of how to develop a successful business plan. Using the business planning software, students finish the course with a successful business plan to take with them.
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This work offers coverage of topics and issues in retailing, including entrepreneurial and small business retailing, diversity, data-based marketing and relationship retailing.
This exhaustive bibliography compiles articles related to the former Yugoslavian region. The over 12,000 entries are broken down into sixteen areas of scholarship. 1,900 of these deal exclusively with events in the area's recent history.
This is the dramatic story of courageous men, tomorrow's technology, last-second victories and tragic losses.