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Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, has been an influential and defining force in American society since 1936. The organization's mission has remained essentially unchanged: to work for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers. The Consumers Union National Testing and Research Center in Yonkers, New York, is the largest nonprofit educational and consumer product testing center in the world. In addition to its testing facility...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to David A. Kessler's, MD The End of Overeating and NOT the original book. Preview: In The End of Overeating (2009), Dr. David A. Kessler investigates the medical, psychological, and industrial reasons behind millions of Americans' over-consumption of processed foods. These consumers report feeling an insatiable hunger for the prepackaged items found in grocery stores or the flavorful dishes found in chain restaurants;...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to David A. Kessler's, MD The End of Overeating and NOT the original book.
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In The End of Overeating (2009), Dr. David A. Kessler investigates the medical, psychological, and industrial reasons behind millions of Americans' over-consumption of processed foods. These consumers report feeling an insatiable hunger for the prepackaged items found in grocery stores or the flavorful dishes found in chain restaurants;...
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Defective cars, contaminated food, insurance company abuses, botched vacations, or government errors and indifference. The Art of Complaining evens the playing field. Most people hate to complain and so they will put up with defective cars, contaminated food, insurance company abuses, botched vacations, and government errors and indifference. The Art of Complaining evens the playing field. The Art of Complaining gives readers an arsenal of successful...
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From USA Today Bestselling Author, Christina Hovland, comes a fake relationship, one-bed trope romantic comedy.Lucy's national news ambitions are derailed when a dangerous fan forces her into hiding in small town Colorado. Her new role behind the scenes is supposed to keep her under the radar. It's definitely not supposed to rekindle a teenage crush on William-a disgraced reality TV star returning to salvage his family's media empire.Undercover as...
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The grand inquisitor of The Weakest Link bares all in this humor-laced memoir.
The first woman in nearly half a century to host a prime-time game show and the highest-paid female journalist in British history, Anne Robinson warranted fan mail, death threats, unqualified admiration, and unabashed hatred. From pioneering journalist to overnight phenomenon, Robinson shares the events of her formative upbringing by a sensitive father and a driven, hardworking...
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Printer ink and toner have been called "liquid gold" and "gold powder" due to the astronomically high price of printer cartridges. However, there is a way to cut printer cartridge costs by up to 75% without sacrificing quality. In the past, the vast majority of businesses have been limited to purchasing over-priced OEM (original equipment manufacturer) printer cartridges. This pricing model was started by the top printer manufacturers, who utilize...
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Comprising of the kind of long-form criticism that is all too rare these days, the weekly film columns in the NYPress included polemics, reviews, interviews, festival reports and features. A far cry from what is often derisively termed the "consumer report" mode of criticism, Cheshire, Seitz and White were passionately engaged with the film culture of both their own time, and what had come before. They constituted three distinctly different voices:...
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Thirty-seven million Americans move during any given year. Millions more think about it. They all want the same thing-a perfect place to live. But most of us have only the vaguest idea of what makes us happy, home-wise, and don't even know all the questions to ask. That's where Marianne Cusato comes in. One of the most influential people in the home-building industry, designer of the Katrina Cottages, and go-to authority for the media on issues related...
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This book is, written for people working in car sales, but not only for them. Anyone in sales can benefit, from learning the sales techniques that author Joe Sabatini explains for how to sell cars, warranties and protection packages. The author shares his knowledge, insight and personal experiences as a successful car salesman, and successful finance and insurance, manager so you can learn from him and take your sales career to the next level.
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What ought to be done at the end of life is both a personal and public decision. As our population ages, it is becoming a matter of great concern for the entire nation. Diseases that would have been death sentences a few decades ago are now often treatable.
This guide explores end-of-life decisions and examines options and trade-offs inherent in this sensitive and universal issue. Medical advances make it more likely that we will care for relatives...
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Jump-start your credit score with this comprehensive credit repair guide. If you need to clean up your credit, this updated resource is full of information to help you get your credit reports looking great, pay down debt, and keep your credit clean. You'll find out how to deal with debt collectors, dispute inaccurate information in your credit reports, and set financial goals to stay on track.
13) The demon crown
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"Off the coast of Brazil, a team of scientists discovers a horror like no other, an island where all life has been eradicated, consumed, and possessed by a species beyond imagination. Before they can report their discovery, a mysterious agency attacks the group, killing them all, save one: an entomologist, an expert on venomous creatures, Professor Ken Matsui from Cornell University. Strangest of all, this inexplicable threat traces back to a terrifying...
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"The story of an infamous crime, a revered map dealer with an unsavory secret, and the ruthless subculture that consumed him Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers-both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. ...
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News correspondent Cokie Roberts examines the nature of women's roles, from mother to mechanic, sister to soldier, through the lens of her personal experience. Each essay introduces us to several of the fascinating women Roberts has encountered during the course of her reporting career; Roberts also relates moving anecdotes about the women in her life, like her mother, former congress-woman Lindy Boggs. These intimate portraits of women become the...
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"In September 1998, young reporter Claudia Rowe was working as a stringer for the New York Times in Poughkeepsie, New York, when local police discovered the bodies of eight women stashed in the attic and basement of the small colonial home that Kendall Francois, a painfully polite twenty-seven-year-old community college student, shared with his parents and sister. Growing up amid the safe, bourgeois affluence of New York City, Rowe had always been...
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In The Meat Racket, investigative reporter Christopher Leonard delivers the first-ever account of how a handful of companies have seized the nation's meat supply. He shows how they built a system that puts farmers on the edge of bankruptcy, charges high prices to consumers, and returns the industry to the shape it had in the 1900s before the meat monopolists were broken up. At the dawn of the 21st century, the greatest capitalist country in the world...
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"In Drink: the intimate relationship between women and alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today: the precipitous rise in risky drinking among women and girls. With the feminist revolution, women have closed the gender gap in their professional and educational...
20) Arriving today: from factory to front door--why everything has changed about how and what we buy
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"A Wall Street Journal reporter travels the globe to tell the story behind the misleadingly simple phrase online shoppers increasingly take for granted: "arriving today." From factory laborers in Vietnam to longshoremen at the port of LA to truckers crawling our interstate highways to robots lurking in Amazon's "dark warehouses," here is an eye-opening investigation of the way online commerce is reshaping the globe, rewriting the rules of business,...
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