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Design Research (abbreviated and trademarked as D/R) was a retail store founded in 1953 by Ben Thompson in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and which introduced the concept of lifestyle store. In the 1970s under subsequent ownership, it became a chain of a dozen stores across the United States, and went bankrupt in 1979.
This is a list of bookstore chains with brick-and-mortar locations. In the United Kingdom and many parts of the English speaking world, they are known as "Bookshops" and "newsagents". In American English , they are called "bookstores", or sometimes "newsstands", as they also usually carry newspapers and magazines.
The books from the "main" product line of 4th Edition are split into Core Rules and Supplement books. Unlike third edition of Dungeons & Dragons , which had the core rulebooks released in monthly installments, the 4th editions of the Player's Handbook , Monster Manual , and Dungeon Master's Guide were all released in June 2008.
D/R or Design Research, a retail lifestyle store chain (1953–1978) DR Motor Company, an Italian automobile company; Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany), former German railway company; Digital Research, a defunct software company; Duane Reade, a New York pharmacy chain; Ruili Airlines (IATA code DR), a Chinese airline
The Bookshop is a narrative overview of the history of independent bookstores in the United States.Each chapter focuses on a different bookstore, describing its history, contributions to its local community, and eventual decline.
On March 4, 1933, Lawrence Hoyt (1902–1982), [1] [2] a former sales manager for Simon & Schuster, [3] and Melvin T. Kafka (1905–1992) [4] [5] opened a rental library within leased space inside a Bridgeport, Connecticut, department store under the name Walden Book Company (named for Henry David Thoreau's Walden, a meditation on simple living in natural surroundings). [6]