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5) Market!
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Describes, in simple text and illustrations, the special characteristics of different types of markets throughout the world, from the Fulton Fish Market in New York to Durbar Square, Patan, where temples rise like pagodas behind the flute sellers.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities -- both mundane and life-changing -- in which money may play little or no role. If you've ever sought a job or hired someone, applied to college or guided your child into a good kindergarten, asked someone out on a date or been asked out, you've participated in a kind of market. Most of the study of economics deals with commodity markets, where the price of...
8) Monkey play
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Three little monkeys swing through a market in India causing mayhem as they playfully pass through the stalls.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A companion book to the History Channel show American Pickers. The book will be a prescriptive, how-to on finding hidden gems across America and what the average person can do to find treasures, as well as the character's adventures "picking" across America. The book will shine a spotlight on the picking world's outrageous characters, from the eccentric collectors and obsessive stockpilers to the elite dealers, art directors, and interior designers...
Author
Language
English
Description
"American markets, once a model for the world, are giving up on competition. Thomas Philippon blames the unchecked efforts of corporate lobbyists. Instead of earning profits by investing and innovating, powerful firms use political pressure to secure their advantages. The result is less efficient markets, leading to higher prices and lower wages"--
15) Fish is Our Life
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This unusual documentary provides a fascinating profile of an important segment of the Japanese population rarely seen or studied in the West. It focuses on the small businessmen-proprietors who work the 1,100 family-owned businesses at Tsukiji Market, Tokyo's largest wholesale fish market.
Author
Pub. Date
c2024
Language
English
Description
"We'll keep looking over there. There must be plantain here somewhere!" Zazi and Papa head out to the market, determined to find sweet plantain. Will they find it before dinner? This vibrant rhyming picture book is a visual representation of how food brings people together. Join Zazi in her search and you just might end up getting more than you bargained for!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
On a trip to the science museum, Maddy learns that bees are fast becoming endangered. As someone with a strong concern for the environment (and a keen love of honey!), she wants to bring a hive to her school. Unfortunately, the beekeeper at the community garden is struggling with her business. Maddy comes up with her sweetest plan yet: a honey-focused booth at the farmers market. The profits will save the beekeeper's business and the beekeeper will...
18) Farm to trouble
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"First in a new series! Shiloh Bellamy cashed in her big city job and 401K to return home to Michigan to save the family farm, but turning Bellamy Farms into a sustainable, organic operation is no small feat. Especially when her new investor is found deadat the farmers market not long after the contract is signed, a contract that the whole town knows her father was wholeheartedly against. Now, Shiloh must clear her family's name and track down the...
Author
Series
Amish marketplace volume 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Since her husband died seven years ago, Leanna Wengerd has done her best-tending to her son, Chester, and running her Jam and Jelly Nook at the Amish market... When Chester gets into trouble for trespassing, he winds up at the police station with his friend Maggie, who was riding with him to a youth group gathering. Leanna comes to the police station to fetch Chester and happens to meet Emory, Maggie's father. Emory is also a widower, raising Maggie...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Beatrice "Bumble B." Flinn loves the farmers' market, where her parents sell honey, and this time she is going to help out at her friend Kalia's family flower stand, but Bumble B is rather clumsy and easily distracted, so things do not go as well as she hoped--but in the end she finds a way to put her skills as an artist to good use.
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