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Let the buyer be aware

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Sharon Zukin, is the writer of the book, 'Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture' that depicts how consumption shaped public and private life since the mid-19th century. She feels that expressing a brand is a like a game of mirror wherein the identity of the desired consumer is reflected in the identity of the products and the store.

Author: Lupton, Ellen
Publisher: International Design Holdings L.P.
Publication Name: I.D.
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0894-5373
Year: 2004
Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Sociologists, Interview, Zukin, Sharon

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Estrogen hits the surface

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The discovery of estrogen receptors on the cell surface explained how estrogen could produce rapid effects in bone, breast, blood vessels, and nerve tissue. Prior to that discovery, scientists believed estrogen activated genetic transcription, which would take hours to achieve the final effect.

Author: Collins, Peter, Webb, Carolyn
Publisher: Nature America, Inc.
Publication Name: Nature Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1078-8956
Year: 1999
Research, Cellular signal transduction, Estrogen, Estrogen receptors

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Under the thumb

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Author Margaret Atwood talks about how she became a poet. She claims that she composed her first poem as a high school student in 1956 while walking home from school. She later won poetry prizes at her university and published her first book of poems entitled 'The Circle Game.'

Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1996
Personal narratives, Behavior, Women poets, Atwood, Margaret

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