"This title focuses on the feud between the companies Adidas and Puma while offering information related to their histories, combative relationships, and the legacies they leave behind. This hi-lo title includes photographs, simple text, glossary, and an index"--OCLC.
Explains the different materials used in shoes, discusses how shoes are put together and shaped in a factory, and how shoes become available to consumers.
Chronicles the history of the sneaker industry and discusses how sneakers are made, who designs the logos, why styles change, and other related topics.
New York shoemaker Valentine Roncalli is at her grandmother's wedding in Tuscany when she learns that her brother has been made partner with her in the family business. Valentine escapes the drama by re-igniting her relationship with Gianluca. When Valentine takes a business trip to Buenos Aires, she discovers a family secret that threatens to destroy the Roncallis. Valentine struggles to keep the family together while debating her future with Gianluca.
A biography of the half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man who, despite the hardships and prejudice he found in his new Massachusetts home, invented a shoe-lasting machine that revolutionized the shoe industry in the late nineteenth century.
