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Say It in Czech by Milan Fryscak, ISBN 0486215385

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Contains over 1,000 useful sentences and phrases for travel or everyday living abroad: food, shopping, medical aid, courtesy, hotels, travel, and other situations. Gives the English phrase, the foreign equivalent, and a transliteration that can be read right off. Also includes many supplementary lists, signs, and aids. All words are indexed.



Insight Guide Tuscany by Barbara Balletto, ISBN 1585733008

Some travelers love nothing better than to bathe in the sun. Others revel in immersing themselves in history and culture. Then there are those who are born to shop. We all know the type. In fact, we might ourselves be the type. There are some people for whom shopping is not a necessity but a sport. Insight Shopping Guides are a play book for the avid shopper who wants to level the playing field when he or she competes against natives for the best goods and deals the city has to offer. This series is for the discerning consumer who needs a little help navigating around an unfamiliar city. They are ideal shopping companions for travelers wanting lively, informative background material on the best shopping areas and reliable advice on finding the most reliable service. Insight Guide Tuscany by Barbara Balletto, ISBN 1585733008
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Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping by Rachel Bowlby, ISBN 0231122756

The curious history of shopping and our ideas about it, from the glamorous nineteenth-century department store to our own multi-functional supermarkets

Carried away or loaded down, love it or hate it, we take shopping for granted as one of the pleasures, or burdens, of our lives. Yet we are curiously unaware of how we became the consumers that we are.

In this witty and revelatory book, Rachel Bowlby looks at some of the turning points of twentieth-century consumer history: when department stores gave way to supermarkets; when packaging made everyday things into objects of desire; when self-service created a close, new relationship between shoppers and merchandise. Carried Away looks at arguments about chocolate boxes and bars of soap, at modernist shop windows and supermarket shelves, at Stepford Wives and Rupert Bears -- at the many extraordinary ways that modern shopping and shoppers have been imagined and invented.

Bowlby focuses in particular on the development of supermarkets,...

Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping by Rachel Bowlby, ISBN 0231122756
Shopping > Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping by Rachel Bowlby, ISBN 0231122756

Mirror, Mirror...

Wisecracking tomboy Gena needs to buy a fancy dress for a ball and dreads the shopping trip because she's afraid to look in the mirror. Whenever she does, a strange girl with pigtails peers back at her. Mirror, Mirror...
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Eat Shop Rhode Island: The Indispensible Guide to Stylishly Unique, Locally Owned Eating and Shopping Establishments

Ideally sized for backpacks or purses, this guide also features easy-to-read maps and hotel suggestions, and it unearths distinctive, locally-owned and operated eating and shopping destinations that are appealing both locals and tourists. Eat Shop Rhode Island: The Indispensible Guide to Stylishly Unique, Locally Owned Eating and Shopping Establishments
Shopping > Eat Shop Rhode Island: The Indispensible Guide to Stylishly Unique, Locally Owned Eating and Shopping Establishments

Insight Guide Hawaii by Scott Rutherford, ISBN 1585732850

Some travelers love nothing better than to bathe in the sun. Others revel in immersing themselves in history and culture. Then there are those who are born to shop. We all know the type. In fact, we might ourselves be the type. There are some people for whom shopping is not a necessity but a sport. Insight Shopping Guides are a play book for the avid shopper who wants to level the playing field when he or she competes against natives for the best goods and deals the city has to offer. This series is for the discerning consumer who needs a little help navigating around an unfamiliar city. They are ideal shopping companions for travelers wanting lively, informative background material on the best shopping areas and reliable advice on finding the most reliable service. Insight Guide Hawaii by Scott Rutherford, ISBN 1585732850
Shopping > Insight Guide Hawaii by Scott Rutherford, ISBN 1585732850