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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Peddling"”.
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Apocalypse now now
… a possible serial killer, the kingpin of a porn-peddling schoolyard syndicate and the only thing standing in the way of full-scale gang warfare between the two powerful gangs which control Westridge High School. Which may well be what counts for average these days.
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IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN? POSTFEMINIST FEMININITIES IN FEMALE FRIENDSHIP APPS
… technologies for women are new media peddling an old promise: female empowerment through mediated possibilities of friendship, and software that connects them. Powered by algorithms that help structure their company, these applications (apps) turn out remarkable not for bridging women, …
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FROM SELLING RAGS TO WEARING RICHES: GERMAN JEWS' ECONOMIC PROGRESS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
… occupations, especially petty commerce and peddling, inadvertently positioned them to be at the forefront of German industrialization. The narratives of Jewish businessmen, combined with articles in two Jewish newspapers, indicate that Jewish entrepreneurs of that period continued to focus …
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Timely/timeless : temporality and perpetuity in architecture
… efforts through art -- has come to mean cozy peddling of the exclusive few's whims, a non-exhaustive sequence of momentary trends is all that is left to inform the architecture for the rest of us. I propose architecture that can be more culturally relevant and less hypocritical about its …
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The Non-Elite Consumer and ‘Wearing Apparel’ in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, 1800-1850
… in rural areas, the decline of hawking and peddling, the non-elite use of clothing shops and non-elite consumers’ relationship with fashion. It emphasizes that non-elite consumers had a complex relationship with their clothing, influenced in part by personal preference, gender, economic …
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Aspects of the Jewish Experience in Northern Europe, 800 to 1096
… Others distributed the products of Europe by peddling merchandise around the continent and by trading at commercial fairs. Jewish businessmen also imported the merchandise of other continents— Africa and Asia— to Europe, and exported European products to these areas. Through these endeavors, …
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Curbside eating : mobilizing food trucks to activate public space
… of the US. Since 2008, they have entered cities peddling gourmet food items, catering to a young, hip clientele, and skillfully using mobile technologies as a business strategy. Despite predictions that the trend was simply a passing fad, the phenomenon has already established deep roots in many …
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Demetrius Johnson and the Weep of the World: A Novel
… Demetrius meets the novel’s antagonist—a promise-peddling inventor named Meraux the Magic Man, who claims that Dee’s mother is not gone but lost and that he has just the gadgets to find her. Using steampunk-horror details, Meraux is grief personified, imagining grief as a force that spontaneously …
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A zsidó nők és férfiak 18. századvégi-19. század eleji letelepedése Pesten, különös tekintettel a zsidó nők helyzetére
… Hungarian as well, while the nameless, unknown peddling, begging women, family mothers and single mothers occupy the centre of attention. Slowly another Jewish world evolves from this before us, the main characters of which are women. The women do occupy the first place in history even if always …
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Satire as Journalism: The Daily Show and American Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
… that he is nothing more than a stand-up comedian peddling satire, and it argues that his shtick, which he calls "fake news," is actually a quasi-journalistic product. This study moves beyond those issues by reviving questions about the role news media play in creating community. It applies …
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Gods, kvinnor och stickning : tidigindustriell verksamhet i Höks härad i södra Halland ca 1750–1870
The aim of this dissertation has been to examine the growth, development, and organisation of the knitting industry in southern Halland during early modern times. This proto-industrial enterprise was conducted primarily via a putting-out system in the goods districts. Wallen's estate in Våxtorp …