Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- In the beginning -- An industry finds itself -- Changing patterns of distribution -- Evolution of the kitchen -- Pots and pans plus -- The bath shop -- The electric age -- From brooms to vacuum cleaners -- Cutlery, can openers and gadgets -- The plastic parade -- The melting pot -- Looking back ... and ahead.…”

Table of Contents: “…Art needlework -- Bakery -- Banking -- Beers & mineral waters -- Boys' clothing -- Brushes -- Building & decorating -- Cabs & carriages (hire of) -- Carpets & blinds -- Catering -- Children's costumes -- China & glass -- Cigars & tobaccos -- Coals -- Confectionery -- Cooked meats -- Cutlery -- Dress materials -- Drugs & perfumery -- Dispensing -- Dyeing & cleaning -- Electro plate -- Electric lighting -- Fancy leather goods -- Feathers & artificial flowers -- Fish -- Flowers & plants -- Forage -- Fruit & vegetables -- Furnishing drapery -- Furniture & bedding -- Furs -- Garden furniture & tents -- Gents' outfitting -- Gloves -- Haberdashery -- Hairdressing saloon -- Harness & saddlery -- Hats -- Hire & entertainments -- Hosiery -- Household service agency -- Insurance -- Ironmongery -- Jewellery -- Lace & fancy goods -- Ladies' underclothing -- Lamps -- Manicure & chiropody -- Meat -- Millinery -- Music -- Oriental -- Photography -- Pianos -- Poultry -- Prints & calicoes -- Provisions -- Removals & warehousing -- Restaurant -- Ribbons -- Silks & velvets -- Stationery -- Tea gowns -- Theatre tickets -- Toys & games -- Trimmings -- Trunks -- Turnery -- Umbrellas & sunshades -- Waterproof goods -- Wines & spirits -- Wools.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Peta Motture and Michelle O'Malley -- Finding fame : painting and the making of careers in Renaissance Italy / Michelle O'Malley -- Set in stone : monumental altar frames in Renaissance Florence / Meghan Callahan and Donal Cooper -- Veit Stoss and the origins of collecting of small-scale sculpture before 1500 / Norbert Jopek -- New light on a Venetian lantern at the V&A / Nick Humphrey and Martino Ferrari Bravo -- Rethinking the Petrucci Pavement / Elizabeth Miller and Alun Graves -- Dancing, love, and the 'beautiful game' : a new interpretation of a group of fifteenth-century 'gaming' boxes / Paula Nuttall -- Sharing and status : the design and function of a sixteenth-century Spanish spice stand in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Kirstin Kennedy -- Scattered knives and dismembered song : cutlery, music and the rituals of dining / Flora Dennis.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Johns Manville Corporation -- Johnson Financial Group, Incorporated -- Journal Register Company -- Justin Brands, Incorporated -- Katz Group Canada Limited -- Key Safety Systems, Incorporated -- Keynetics Incorporated -- Knowledge Universe Education LLC -- LCH.Clearnet Group Limited -- Leatherman Tool Group, Incorporated -- LeCroy Corporation -- Lego A/S -- Leica Camera AG -- Level 3 Communications, Incorporated -- LexisNexis -- Liberty Travel, Incorporated -- Lincare Holdings, Incorporated -- Lithia Motors, Incorporated -- Madhvani Group of Companies -- Marketron Broadcast Solutions, LLC -- MetLife, Incorporated -- MGIC Investment Corporation -- Morningstar Incorporated -- The Motley Fool, Incorporated -- Music Choice -- Naf Naf SAS -- Ohio Art Company -- Ohio Casualty Insurance Company -- The Philadelphia Orchestra Association -- RLJ Entertainment, Incorporated -- Ruparelia Group -- Seneca Foods Corporation -- Sierra Trading Post, Incorporated -- Skyworks Solutions, Incorporated -- Sleepy's Incorporated -- Software AG -- Stanley Furniture Company, Incorporated -- Stanley Steemer International, Incorporated -- Strauss Group Limited -- Tasty Baking Company -- Tejon Rancy Company -- Teledyne Technologies Incorporated -- Tennessee Valley Authority -- Toll Holdings Limited -- Touchstone Energy Cooperative, Incorporated -- United Breweries (Holdings) Limited -- The Vermont Teddy Bear Company, Incorporated -- W.R. Case and Sons Cutlery Company -- Waddell and Reed, Incorporated -- The Walt Disney Company -- West Bend Mutual Insurance Company -- Yahoo! …”
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