The Consumer Bible

The Consumer Bible
Author:
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 772
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780761112273

Offers advice on saving time and money on food, health care, home, automobiles, finances, clothing, telephones, child care, vacations, lawyers, and funerals

Consumers' Guide to Product Grades and Terms

Consumers' Guide to Product Grades and Terms
Author: Timothy L. Gall
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Total Pages: 642
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Explains over 8,000 words, grades, and classifications used to describe the size, age, nature, or quality of the products people use and buy every day. Includes both voluntary standards and those regulated by the government.

The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices

The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
Author: Michael Brower
Publisher: Harmony
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2009-11-04
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0307427021

From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment. Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth diapers or disposables? Some choices have a huge impact on the environment; others are of negligible importance. To those of us who care about our quality of life and what is happening to the earth, this is a vastly important issue. In these pages, the Union of Concerned Scientists help inform consumers about everyday decisions that significantly affect the environment. For example, a few major decisions--such as the choice of a house or vehicle--have such a disproportionately large affect on the environment that minor environmental infractions shrink by comparison. This book identifies the 4 Most Significant Consumer-Related Environmental Problems, the 7 Most Damaging Spending Categories, 11 Priority Actions, and 7 Rules for Responsible Consumption. Learn what you can do to have a truly significant impact on our world from the people who are at the forefront of scientific research.

Driving from Japan

Driving from Japan
Author: Wanda James
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015-08-13
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1476612803

This study chronicles the success of the Japanese car in America. Starting with Japan's first gasoline-powered car, the Takuri, it examines early Japanese inventors and automotive conditions in Japan; the arrival of Japanese cars in California in the late 1950s; consumer and media reactions to Japanese manufacturers; what obstacles they faced; initial sales; and how the cars gained popularity through shrewd marketing. Toyota, Honda, Datsun (Nissan), Mazda, Subaru, Isuzu, and Mitsubishi are profiled individually from their origins through the present. An examination follows of the forced cooperation between American and Japanese manufacturers, the present state of the industry in America, and the possible future of this union, most importantly in the race for a more environmentally-sound vehicle.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance
Author: Samuel Patton Black
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780815329152

First Published in 2001. This study explores the development of automobile insurance through the career of one of the industry's entrepreneurs, Samuel P. Black, Jr., and Erie Insurance, the company he helped build.

Ford Chronicle

Ford Chronicle
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Ford automobile
ISBN: 9781450826778