"For more than ten years, while caring for more than 20,000 patients, Dr. Ken Berry has been researching the medical myths and outright lies that doctors tell their patients. He's been working to eliminate confusion about topics that affect us all--from the foods you should eat to the medications you should take...This book is the resource you need to distinguish the lies from the facts."--Page 4 of cover
Over 600 images present teddy bear toys, from the earliest made in 1902 to today. Among the makers are Ideal, Steiff, Bing, Columbia Manufacturing, Gund, North American Bears, Merrythought, and Bruin Manufacturing. The text provides a history of the bears, their manufacturers and artists, and collectors who have pursued them. A bibliography, index, and values in the captions are included.
Featuring over 475 vibrant photographs, this book showcases both toy and real bears depicted on a variety of everyday objects. Each image is accompanied by historical facts and a current value range, making it a valuable resource for collectors. The collection includes items made from metals, wood, glass, ceramics, paper, and textiles, spanning categories like advertising, postage stamps, clothing, and tableware, highlighting the diverse representation of bears in both functional and decorative contexts.
This beguiling book leads to the fantasy world the Steiff Toy Company has been busily creating for over one hundred years. In over 860 beautiful color photographs, you will discover more than one thousand toys, some as recent as yesterday and most many decades old. A menagerie of stuffed animals awaits, including the beloved teddy bears, as well as cats, dogs, birds of every sort, denizens of the forest and wild life from the Savannah. Puppets, dolls, and wheeled toys of every sort also grace these pages, accompanied by large studio figures and enchanting mechanical villages filled with busy figures.Also included in this expansive work are a preface by Susanna Steiff Pinyuh, the great grand niece of the company's founder, Margarete Steiff, catalog copy displaying many items produced by the firm, and an examination of the company's identifying marks. Values are included in the captions. This delightful book is a must for every toy collector.
The teddy bear turns 100 this year! Celebrate the origins of the delightful toy bears that have charmed adults and children around the world for a century. Here are stories and over 350 color photographs of some of the most important people, events, and bears that have contributed to Teddy's enormous popularity. Theodore Roosevelt who inspired the toy bears in 1902, Seymour Eaton who wrote Roosevelt Bears stories from 1905 to 1909, Margarete Steiff who created bears in 1912, Peter Bull who wrote the nostalgic and inspiring Teddy Bear Book in 1969, and many others are featured with historical information about their importance to the bears. Designers, manufacturers, and collectors all will be enthusiastic about this sumptuous parade of the world's most charming bears. Happy Birthday Teddy!
Over 400 super appealing toy bears by makers the world over, including manufacturers Steiff, Bing, Schuco, Hermann, Gabrielle, Ideal, Knickerbocker, Farnell, Chad Valley...and talented individual makers. Hockenberry points you to the leading public collections in England, Europe, and the U. S.
It is an extraordinary but well-documented phenomeon: two people, who seem relatively harmless alone, team up ... and the results are terrifyingly explosive.
It's an age-old question: is it nature or nurture? Can there really be a 'demon seed' that causes serial killers to act the way they do? Or is it an unfortunate combination of influences and events during their formative years that has turned them into such monsters?
Provides interviews of some of the worst criminals in the world. Here, they speak of their violence and shocking deeds in their own words, from within some of the hardest prisons on earth. This work is an analysis of the criminal mind.
Emissaries of Satan is a gripping and chilling forensic examination of three truly evil men - two American, one British - who between them brutally murdered 29 innocent young women, together with a devoted mother and son.