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Toys That Built America volume 1
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English
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After passing on the biggest deal in toy industry history, Mattel President Ray Wagner finds himself a step behind former colleague-turned- rival, Bernie Loomis. Wagner steals a page from Loomis' playbook to create the next blockbuster toy.
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Toys That Built America volume 4
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English
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At the height of the industrial age, a struggling Danish Carpenter emerges whose passion for innovation leads him to a new building material--plastic. With it he'll create the biggest toy empire the world has ever seen.
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Toys That Built America volume 2
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English
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Defense contractor Ralph Baer invents the world's first home video game console. But it is soon eclipsed by a new table tennis game that becomes one of the most famous video games of all time.
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Toys That Built America volume 5
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English
Description
Hungarian professor, Erno Rubik, ignites "Cube Mania" with his 3-D puzzle that takes the world by storm. Leslie Scott will stop at nothing to bring an iconic building block board game to market.
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Toys That Built America volume 9
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English
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The Christmas crazes that helped transform holiday shopping into the frantic, no-holds-barred $1.1 trillion frenzy that it is today.
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Toys That Built America volume 8
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English
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After the U.S. videogame crash of 1983, a Japanese electronics company single-handedly resurrects the industry with a game featuring a jumping plumber. But a rival rises to challenge their dominance, setting off a war between video game superpowers.
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Toys That Built America volume 10
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English
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These are the stories of America's most innovative, groundbreaking, and profitable toys designed to shock--and how they grew to claim a bigger piece of the 100-billion-dollar toy industry than you would think.
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Toys That Built America volume 7
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English
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In the 1980s, groundbreaking technology redefines classic toys. A former amusement park employee combines his animatronic knowledge with the cassette tape to create the world's first realistic talking toy.
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Toys That Built America volume 3
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English
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A visionary named Marvin Glass oversees the creation of many of the most iconic toys of the 20th Century. From chattering teeth to a legendary game based on a mouse trap, Glass pushes the boundaries of what a toy can be, and inspires generations.
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Toys That Built America volume 6
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English
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In the midst of the 1970s folk art movement, art student Martha Nelson creates a one-of-a-kind doll to sell at local Kentucky craft markets. She has no idea that a visionary young entrepreneur will use her artwork as inspiration for a mass-produced doll.
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