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Developing the electronics industry.
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ISBN: 0821325221 Year: 1993 Publisher: Washington World Bank

iF design award 2004.
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ISBN: 3764368551 Year: 2004 Publisher: Basel Birkhäuser

Information rules : a strategic guide to the network economy.
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ISBN: 087584863X Year: 1999 Publisher: Boston Harvard business school press

The international design yearbook.
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ISSN: 08837155 ISBN: 1558592857 1856690326 0789208105 9781856690324 Publisher: New York Abbeville.

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This reference book provides a review of domestic design around the world, featuring furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles and products created in the last 18 months. This year's selection was made by the Czechoslovakian architect and designer Borek Sipek, whose original furniture and glassware have received international acclaim. The book spans designers such as Phillipe Starck, Etorre Sottsass and Achille Castiglioni and that of lesser known designers and students. Commentaries by Rick Poyner, contributing editor to "Blueprint" magazine and editor of the graphics magazine "Eye", highlight new tendencies and focus on individual designers, providing a background to their latest work. Full technical data is given for each design and a reference section includes biographies of the designers, details of suppliers, a directory of design publications and an update of acquisitions by the contemporary design collections of major museums worldwide.


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Consumer durable choice and the demand for electricity
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ISBN: 0444877665 1322053693 1483294668 9780444877666 Year: 1985 Volume: 155 Publisher: Amsterdam New York Oxford North-Holland

The meaning of things : domestic symbols and the self
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ISBN: 0521239192 052128774X 1107384605 1139167618 9780521287746 9781139167611 Year: 1981 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelings about common household objects, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton provide a unique perspective on materialism, American culture, and the self. They begin by reviewing what social scientists and philosophers have said about the transactions between people and things. In the model of 'personhood' that the authors develop, goal-directed action and the cultivation of meaning through signs assume central importance. They then relate theoretical issues to the results of their survey. An important finding is the distinction between objects valued for action and those valued for contemplation. The authors compare families who have warm emotional attachments to their homes with those in which a common set of positive meanings is lacking, and interpret the different patterns of involvement. They then trace the cultivation of meaning in case studies of four families. Finally, the authors address what they describe as the current crisis of environmental and material exploitation, and suggest that human capacities for the creation and redirection of meaning offer the only hope for survival. A wide range of scholars - urban and family sociologists, clinical, developmental and environmental psychologists, cultural anthropologists and philosophers, and many general readers - will find this book stimulating and compelling.

Economies of scale, competitiveness, and trade patterns within the European Community
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ISBN: 0198284578 9780198284574 Year: 1983 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

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Foreign trade. International trade --- European Union --- Automobile industry and trade --- Truck industry --- Electric household appliances industry --- Automobiles --- Industrie et commerce --- European Economic Community --- European Economic Community countries --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- Commerce --- 339.92 --- European Union. --- -Electric household appliances industry --- -Truck industry --- -658.11 --- AA / International- internationaal --- EEC / European Union - EU -Europese Unie - Union Européenne - UE --- EUR / Europe - Europa --- 382.51 --- 338.752.12 --- 334.151.7 --- 338.752.2 --- 338.046.1 --- 338.70 --- 334.154.33 --- 338.046.0 --- 380.23 --- Motor vehicle industry --- Electric industries --- Household appliances, Electric --- Automotive industry --- Economische samenwerking en integratie. Tolunie --- Kinds and forms of enterprise --- Aard, belang en evolutie. Handelsbalans. J curve. --- Auto's en fietsen. --- EG : industrieel- en energiebeleid. --- Elektrische constructies. Elektronische toestellen. Elektrische huishoudapparaten. --- Grote ondernemingen. --- Industrieën : Algemeenheden. Structuur en evolutie van de industrie. --- Mededinging, concurrentie en concentratie in de Europese Gemeenschappen. --- Omvang van de industriële bedrijven: algemeenheden. Schaalvoordelen. --- Vorming van internationale prijzen. Internationale gelijkheden en verschillen. Concurrentievermogen. --- -Common market countries --- European common market countries --- Europe --- -Commerce --- 658.11 Kinds and forms of enterprise --- 339.92 Economische samenwerking en integratie. Tolunie --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- 658.11 --- EG : industrieel- en energiebeleid --- Mededinging, concurrentie en concentratie in de Europese Gemeenschappen --- Omvang van de industriële bedrijven: algemeenheden. Schaalvoordelen --- Grote ondernemingen --- Industrieën : Algemeenheden. Structuur en evolutie van de industrie --- Auto's en fietsen --- Elektrische constructies. Elektronische toestellen. Elektrische huishoudapparaten --- Vorming van internationale prijzen. Internationale gelijkheden en verschillen. Concurrentievermogen --- Aard, belang en evolutie. Handelsbalans. J curve --- European Economic Community. --- CEE --- Evropeĭskiĭ Soi︠u︡z --- C.E.E. --- Communauté économique européenne --- Comunidad Económica Europea --- Comunità economica europea --- EEC --- EC --- Europäische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft --- Europejska Wspólnota Gospodarcza --- Europese Economische Gemeenschap --- Európai Gazdasági Közösség --- EHS --- Kurapʻa Kyŏngje Kongdongchʻe --- Kurapʻa Kongdong Sijang --- EEG --- Evropeĭska ikonomicheska obshtnost --- Evropské hospodářské spolecenstvi --- Comunidade Económica Europeia --- EWG --- Europæiske økonomiske fællesskab --- EØF --- Koinē Agora --- EOK --- MCE --- Mercado Común Europeo --- Europeiske økonomiske fellesskap --- Evropeĭskoe ėkonomicheskoe soobshchestvo --- MEC --- Evropska ekonomska zaednica --- EZZ --- Common Market --- Marché commun --- EĖS --- Avrupa Ekonomik Topluluğu --- AET --- Müşterek Pazar --- Ortak Pazar --- Sūq al-Ūrūbbīyah al-Mushtarakah --- Mercado Comum --- Europaikē Oikonomikē Koinotēta --- Evropska gospodarska skupnost --- Mercato comune --- EEZ --- Evropska ekonomska zajednica --- Euroopan Yhteisö --- EY --- EIO --- Shuḳ ha-Eropi ha-meʼuḥad --- Suq Komuni --- Eurōpaïkē Koinotēta --- Comunidade Européia --- Mercado Comum Europeau --- Unia Europejska --- Koinotēta --- E.G. --- קהילה האירופית --- קהילייה האירופאית --- שוק הארופאי המשותף --- Evropeisku Félagsmarknaðin --- EF --- Common market countries --- Commerce. --- Automobile industry and trade - European Economic Community countries --- Truck industry - European Economic Community countries --- Electric household appliances industry - European Economic Community countries --- European Economic Community countries - Commerce --- CEE (European Economic Community) --- C.E.E. (European Economic Community) --- EEC (European Economic Community)

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