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David & Goliath
As another chain closes in around him, the owner of Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops maintains an independent family business by knowing his customers and community
You can spot him easily even in a jumble of people on the exhibition floor. No one else looks quite like him. Certainly no other 61-year-old.
There he is at The Texas Bookman booth, a bearded fellow in a 1970s-style white collarless shirt, brown leather vest and blue jeans, a skinny hippie-ish figure with a straggly ponytail and a battered leather satchel, rattling off book titles and store numbers as though he were an auctioneer.
"I'll take five copies for store 1, five for 3, five for 4, five for 6," he says, stabbing his thumb at "The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern War" as he calls out the identifying numbers of his stores.
A. David Schwartz is buying publishers' overstock -- remainders, in industry jargon -- for the four Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops in the Milwaukee area and two Dickens discount stores in Kenosha and Gurnee, Ill., that he runs. When "Modern War" first came out, he says, it sold for $49.99. He will mark it at $19.99.
Schwartz moves swiftly, purposely, through exhibits at the nation's largest book fair in Los Angeles, buying titles lickety-split. His orders are telling snapshots of neighborhoods and people here.
Five copies of a book of essays on photography for the Downer Avenue bookstore. Five copies of the "The Oxford History of the Opera," once $49.95, for the Shorewood store. Ten Cordon Bleu cookbooks for each of the Schwartz stores except Downer Avenue, which gets only five. Each Schwartz store also gets five copies of "The Oxford Book of Spy Stories," once a $30 volume that now will retail for $10.99.
He passes on a World War I book ("People don't seem to care"), David Feldna's "How Do Astronauts Scratch an Itch?" ("It's overpriced and it's not going to work for us"), and a few other titles.
Then he cries "Ah-ha" and picks up "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure," that oh-so-racy 18th-century erotica popularly known as "Fanny Hill." He orders 10 copies for the Shorewood store, five for Brookfield, 10 for Downer Avenue, and nothing for Mequon. None for Mequon? People there won't go for that sort of book, he says, then grins.
He should know -- as few other booksellers here know.
For 27 years, Schwartz has successfully guided the business his father founded in 1927 through the morphing thickets of modern-day bookselling, snares that have killed many independent bookstores in the country.
Today, the Schwartz bookshop, though pummeled by competition from the Barnes & Noble chain and Internet stores such as Amazon.com, is as stable a fixture in Milwaukee as Friday fish fries. It is Schwartz's unerring understanding of neighborhoods -- their tastes, their sociology, their health -- that has helped his small bookstore chain find the niches essential for survival.
But Schwartz's mettle is about to be tested once again.
Borders Inc. plans to open a mammoth book-and-music store in the RiverPoint Village Shopping Center in Fox Point in mid-August. The addition of 26,000 square feet of book-selling space in a metropolis whose population has barely grown can mean only one thing: Borders will take customers away from existing bookstores.
Borders has about 250 Borders Books and Music superstores, mostly in the United States. It also owns some 900 Waldenbooks stores. Parent company Borders Group Inc. reported sales of $2.59 billion in 1998.
It is enough to give Schwartz three-aspirin headaches.
"We had the best year we've ever had last year -- since 1991," he says. "So I feel very successful. In spite of all the book-selling space that has been added here in the last few years, we have been able to maintain our volume. Our volume went down when Barnes & Noble was opening their stores here, but we are back up to what we were. Now, the struggle begins all over again with Borders."
Audubon Court Books, an independent store located across N. Port Washington Road from the site of the new Borders, closed earlier this year rather than wage a losing battle against Borders.
Schwartz, who owns the business along with three partners, is readying for the fight. His two-door Jeep Cherokee can be seen outside his second-floor offices in the Third Ward seven days a week. Visitors will find him scrunched behind his old, flat-top oak desk, talking on the phone or tracking sales. Behind him are shelves filled with first editions, bound volumes such as the John Quinn biography, "The Man From New York," rows of hard covers -- his father's library. On one shelf is a finely sculpted bronze of his father's face, head tilted, eyes dreamy.
Schwartz sips water from an old Coca-Cola glass, points at the bronze and says, "He watches me."
His father, Harry W., who began the bookshop in October 1927, calling it "Casanova" at first, has influenced Schwartz enormously. The father died in 1984, but from his passion for bookselling, Schwartz distilled a philosophy he believes will help his small chain survive.
"There's something called the soul of a book," Schwartz says. "I believe the book has a soul, that it has an ethical center. It is a precious article that can change people's lives. The second thing is that it is a social prophet; we have a social contract. The bookshop is larger than a place of commerce. It really believes in the book and bookstores and the people. This is not something you can buy. This is not a clever marketing concept."
Schwartz is among the few independents in the nation well positioned to survive. Instead of having one large store, he has several smaller stores catering to the specific needs of a community, some in areas where no large chain can possibly build a mega store. He has two expert book buyers, Daniel Goldin and Ellie Gore, who have been with him for more than 13 years, know the tastes of each neighborhood and are generally left alone to make key buying decisions.
Managers, for example, decided against selling Playboy and similar men's magazines; it made the saleswomen uncomfortable. Schwartz thought they should sell the publications, but he didn't interfere.
"The only book I have declined to carry is `The Hoax of the Twentieth Century' a private publication by a university professor who denied the Holocaust happened. I simply couldn't do it," he said.
His staffers -- he employs about 150 people, most of whom stay with the firm for long periods -- are given capsule reviews of new books in the stores so they can help customers. Schwartz will happily stock a single copy of a book if he thinks his customers will want it. And he is developing a Web page to start selling books over the Internet, as larger rivals are doing.
Schwartz notes two other aspects of his business. His author visit program is among the largest in the state. Last year, Schwartz brought in 250 authors. Then, there is the Schwartz give-back program through which the firm donates 1% of a customer's total sale to charity. Last year, the bookstore gave $60,000 to 11 Milwaukee area charities.
For Schwartz, this is not just marketing. It's a way of life compatible with the legacy of his rebellious youth, a time when his socialistic idealism clashed with his father's love for the bookstore.
Ask him what he means and he'll thrust a typed mission statement at you: "Bookselling was and is for me a cultural and political expression, an expression of progressive change, of challenge to oppressive authority, of a search for a community of values which can act as an underpinning of a better world. The true profit in bookselling is the social profit, the bottom line is the measure of the impact of the bookshop on the community."
Among publishers, he is known as a "true book person," a tough guy who demands that salesmen really know the books they are trying to sell him. David Nelson, who often stayed at the Schwartz house when in town to sell Penguin books, remembers with a chuckle that Schwartz would throw out unprepared salesmen.
"Challenge motivates him," says Nelson, now vice president and director of sales at Harcourt Brace. "When the competition comes in, it seems to drive him to do even better. He's not one of the booksellers who says, `Woe is me.' He says, `What do I have to do now?' And he's a a great book person. At dinners at his house or whatever, we always ended up talking about the books we were reading."
Books are in his blood. His father, the son of Russian immigrant grocers, opened his bookstore at age 24 and never looked back. David, though, never planned to sell books. As a child, he heard his father say that selling books was "the only meaningful occupation that one could have in his whole life" while his mother Reva read him all the classic children's books, including his favorite, "The Wind in the Willows."
"I grew up with both an attraction and repulsion for the bookshop," he says. "I was repelled because it seemed like it was a monomania in your life. It completely takes over your life. My mother is 86 and she still comes to work."
Schwartz, though, loved reading. By the time he enrolled in Shorewood High School, he had discovered books on the Revolution and the French and Indian wars.
He worked part time in his father's shop at 434 W. Wisconsin Ave., packing boxes for shipment to customers. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in history and literature, Schwartz went to work at bookshops owned by the publisher Doubleday in New York City and Washington, D.C. In 1963, he returned home to work at his father's store on lively Wisconsin Avenue.
Schwartz clashed with his father right from the start.
At 25, Schwartz thought he knew it all. But the elder Schwartz was dictatorial, determined. He had sold first editions of Hemingway, Steinbeck and Fitzgerald. He had even published "Salmagundi," a 53-page collection of William Faulkner articles that appeared between 1919 and 1925. He had hung on through the Depression in part by selling "erotica" such as "Fanny Hill" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover." Who was David to tell him anything?
So once again, Schwartz quit and went off to Madison to study James Boswell and become a historian. "But I couldn't do it," he remembers. "The bookshop had its hooks in too deep in me."
He returned only to quit once again.
"It was a bad time for idealistic Americans," he recalls. "We were disillusioned and discouraged by the Vietnam War. I would get very angry with books. Books, I said, were the chains and tools of capitalism to prevent people from changing their lives. And so, I actually stopped reading for a year. The last book I read was `Babbitt' by Sinclair Lewis and I found his portrait of the businessman so unattractive that I thought that that was what I would become. I couldn't bear the thought."
In 1971 Schwartz, an only child, went off with his first wife and two other couples to found a commune in Maine. He cut pulpwood for a living. But after a year, with his marriage failing and his soul wanting something more than pulpwood, he returned with his daughter, Rebecca, to Milwaukee.
This time his father told him plainly, "The next time you leave to find yourself, you are going to leave your own bookshop. Your mother and I will work for you." Then old Schwartz handed over the bookstore to him.
Overnight, their relationship changed. "I thought how much he had learned in 10 years," Schwartz says, grinning. "We never had a cross word again. I was filled with enthusiasm for the store."
By then, the store had moved to 440 W. Wisconsin Ave. Schwartz enlarged it to 6,500 square feet, making it the largest book store in Wisconsin. In the next years, he tried to learn everything he could. He talked with publishers, visited competitors and aped the best. He copied the way B. Dalton's displayed books on center tables. He learned to differentiate between marketing and advertising. He copied the big stores' signage to quickly lead people to displays.
When the chains came in with their coffee shops, their discounts and their down-home feel, he remodeled his stores, offered discounts, coffee and coziness, too. He did one better. In the last decade, following his daughter's ideas, he has built a solid author visit program. More well-known authors visit his stores than any other in the area.
In the 1980s and 1990s, he moved low-performance stores to better locations. Stores in the Grand Avenue mall and the Iron Block building downtown were closed and reopened elsewhere. In 1984 he merged with the Book Nook, a Whitefish Bay bookstore owned by Avin Domnitz, now president of the American Booksellers Association. By the end of 1993, they had opened a new Schwartz store in Mequon; they moved the merged shop from Whitefish Bay to Brookfield. In 1997, the last piece fell into place: Schwartz moved the Iron Block store to Downer Avenue on the east side.
Today, with four profitable stores and divisions that sell discount and corporate books, Schwartz is at peace with his choices.
Still idealistic, he lives a low-key life, going for walks in his east side neighborhood and indulging his passion for wine, cooking, gardening and reading historical novels.
Most evenings, he cooks chicken -- "I know how to cook chicken 10 different ways, each of them good," he says -- while his second wife, Carol, reads to him, often from early 20th-century American writers like Frank Norris.
Carol, the events coordinator for the bookstores, is the only family member working with him. His daughter Rebecca, Schwartz says, is a schoolteacher and he isn't about to force her into bookselling.
"I've learned to be a merchant without being a Babbitt," Schwartz says. "I'm a part of the community in the way these national chains can't be. After 72 years, (we're) knitted into the fabric of Milwaukee and our customers sustain us and we sustain them."
He is sure the Schwartz stores will survive. It's just going to be a hard road, he says.
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Each happy farm animal "sounds off" in its own voice when its animal puzzle piece is placed correctly in this eight-piece wooden peg puzzle! Your child will enjoy hearing all eight sounds and looking at the full-color, matching pictures under the pieces, while developing matching and listening skills with this captivating multisensory puzzle.
Each animal sounds off in its own voice when the pieces are placed correctly in the puzzle board of this wooden 8-pc. peg puzzle
Enjoy all 8 sounds and the full-color matching pictures under each piece
Eye- and ear-catching puzzle enhances matching and listening skills
Features: removable puzzle pieces
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Number of Pieces: 8
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Care and Cleaning: Wipe Clean with a Damp Cloth
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Complaint Review: Print Harmony
Print Harmony717 West berwick Easton, Pennsylvania United States of America
Print Harmony printharmoney.com Guaranteed order. Totally lied to get businees and did not deliver Easton , Pennsylvania
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Champion Energy LLC An Electric Company That Doesn't Know the First Thing About Taking Care of the Customer. Houston, Texas
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BRISTOL, Conn. -- Bret Bielema isn't worried about what his running game looks like to the outside world. To the burly, boastful coach, he's more excited than probably anyone else about the guys set to carry the rock for the Arkansas Razorbacks.
On paper, yes, people have every right to be skeptical about Arkansas' backfield. Bell cow backs Alex Collins and Jonathan Williams are gone. Kody Walker, a sixth-year senior who has been plagued by injuries, is coming off mid-spring foot surgery. Rawleigh Williams underwent neck surgery last year after the Auburn game and didn't go through contact this spring. The two have combined for 898 yards and 14 touchdowns.
Coaches even moved receiver Damon Mitchell, a.k.a "Duwop," to running back. Denzell Evans and Juan Day also got reps this spring, but Evans has since transferred and Day has carried the ball just four times for 17 yards in his career. Bielema loves freshman Devwah Whaley, but he has zero collegiate experience.
But all those issues are just fodder for Bielema and new running backs coach Reggie Mitchell to seamlessly wade through -- kind of like Bielema's backs have sliced through lines for years. See, the inexperience and injuries aren't worrying Bielema because he thinks he once again has a bullish backfield to unleash on the SEC.
"We've got three or four running backs who I think are pretty legit," Bielema said during last week's SEC coaches car wash at ESPN's headquarters.
For starters, Williams, who Bielema sees as a 1,000-yard back, was cleared by doctors to take contact this spring, but Bielema wanted to be cautious with him. After all, there's no need to rush someone back who just broke his neck a few months earlier. Physically, Williams "looks great" to Bielema and has slimmed down to help him be an even shiftier runner for the Hogs this fall.
Walker, who should get some time at fullback as well, is down to 240 pounds after playing at 265 pounds last year. Bielema thinks weight loss will make Walker a much faster and more agile player.
Mitchell could be a nice change-of-pace back for the Razorbacks. He won't be a hefty carrier for Arkansas, but he'll give the Hogs a little more slashing ability in the run game and will take some pressure off the workhorse backs.
Williams will likely claim one of the top spots, with Walker playing both running back and fullback, but the other running back spot could go to one of Arkansas' two talented freshmen. T.J. Hammonds is a jitterbug who could really change things up in the offense if he can get a hold of the scheme during fall camp, but the real star could be Whaley. The Beaumont, Texas, stud was the nation's No. 6-ranked running back prospect in the 2016 recruiting class, and Bielema has been amazed at the natural talent he possess.
The powerful, speedy runner fits the mold of many of Bielema's past backs, and Bielema is hoping that Whaley immediately comes into his own inside this offense.
"He might be the most complete running back I've ever signed," Bielema said. "He's serious."
Regardless of how quickly Whaley adapts to what the Hogs want to do, Bielema is far from a one-back man. When you look at Bielema's body of work, 2015 served as more of an aberration. Collins rushed for 1,577 yards, but Walker was a distant second with 394 yards. The year before, Collins and Jonathan Williams, who missed the 2015 regular season with a foot injury, combined for 2,290 yards. The season prior, the two rushed for 1,926 yards.
Bielema said his love for a multi-back system began in 2010 at Wisconsin when John Clay and James White both rushed for 1,000 yards and Montee Ball hit 996. During his next two seasons, he had two backs hit at least 700 yards.
"We were really good that year," Bielema said of his 2010 Big Ten champion Badgers. "I mean we wore the piss out of people, but people don't want to play that way."
Bielema has mastered the multi-back system, and he sees it as his ticket to keeping his less experienced running game going in 2016.


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Quiz: USC a source of talent for Pack
Over the years, team has drawn from well in draft
Since the National Football League draft was instituted in 1936, the Green Bay Packers have chosen a USC Trojan in the first round four times entering the 2012 draft.
Make it five.
The Packers selected defensive end / linebacker Nick Perry with its first-round pick (No. 28 overall), setting the stage for a draft that addressed the inadequacies of the NFL's worst defensive unit.
Perry will complement another former Trojan, Clay Matthews, on the Green Bay defense that sorely lacked a pass rush last season.
Matthews was a first-round selection of the Packers in 2009 but not their first. That distinction belonged to defensive lineman B.J. Raji of Boston College, who was the ninth-overall pick.
Thompson orchestrated one of the best draft-day trades in franchise history by moving up to the 26th slot to select Matthews.
He sent a second-round pick (No. 41 overall) and two third-round selections (Nos. 73 and 83) to the New England Patriots for the opportunity to choose Matthews, who has developed into one of the league's premier pass rushers.
This former walk-on at USC is now a Pro Bowl player, whose production was limited in 2011 to just six sacks as offenses routinely double teamed and even tripled team him. No one else on the Packers defense stepped up to alleviate that attention or provide a consistent pass rush.
Perry was chosen to change that, along with five other defensive selections out of eight players Thompson chose in this year's draft. He boldly moved up three times with trades in the final two days of the draft to acquire the players he wanted.
This week's quiz tests your knowledge of other USC draft picks in team history.
1 . Name the year the Packers first drafted a USC Trojan?
2. This USC Trojan lineman was Green Bay's first pick in the 1996 draft.
A. Adam Timmerman
B. Mike Flanagan
C. Marco Rivera
D. Ross Verba
E. John Michels
3. Eleven years earlier, the Packers chose this USC tackle in the 1985 draft. Who is he?
A. Ron Hallstrom
B. Ken Ruettgers
C. Dave Drechsler
D. Ron Sams
E. Rich Moran
4. The Packers chose this star running back from USC in the 1953 NFL draft.
A. Tony Canadeo
B. Al Carmichael
C. Jim Taylor
D. Gib Dawson
E. Veryl Switzer
5. Where does USC rank among schools producing the most Green Bay Packers?
A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. Fourth
E. Fifth
1. - C. The Packers selected two USC players back-to-back in the 1940 NFL draft. Green Bay took tackle Phil Gaspar in the 12th round and running back Ambrose Schindler in the 13th. Neither player made the final roster of head coach Curly Lambeau's squad that season.
2. - E. Green Bay tabbed tackle John Michels of USC with the 27th-overall selection in the 1996 draft. Michels played in 24 regular-season games from 1996-'97 before a knee injury ended his budding NFL career. He went on to study medicine at USC and is now a doctor.
3. - B. The Packers chose tackle Ken Ruettgers with the seventh-overall selection in the 1985 draft. Ruettgers more than paid his National Football League dues in 12 seasons with Green Bay from 1985-'96: 156 regular season games, three head coaches and multiple knee operations.
4. - B. Green Bay tabbed USC halfback Al Carmichael with its seventh-overall selection in the 1953 NFL draft. Carmichael scored the winning touchdown in USC's victory over Wisconsin in the 1953 Rose Bowl. Carmichael had a solid career from 1953-'58, including a 106-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.
5. - D. USC has produced 34 players for the franchise, fourth most in Green Bay history. Notre Dame (52), Minnesota (44) and Wisconsin (39) top the list.
Your Score
- If you answered all five questions correctly, you are a Packer football genius . . . or a cheater.
- If you answered four questions right, you are entitled to feel very good about yourself.
- If you got two or three correct, there is hope for you.
- If you got one right or failed to answer any of the questions correctly, you must be a fan of the Chicago Bears or Minnesota Vikings.


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Jennifer Powers Exquisite Great Danes Forged AKC documents to remove my name from a co-own of a dog I placed with her Internet, Washington
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Top 10 Milwaukee albums of 2012
From the subtle poetry of Field Report to the shaggy pop-rock of Jaill to the intense electronic beats of Lorn, these three acts - which all had albums released by record labels this year - displayed to locals and outsiders alike the diversity of Milwaukee music. Geography and originality are practically all they had in common.
"Field Report," Jaill's "Traps," and Lorn's "Ask the Dust" all made my top 10 Milwaukee album list this year, as did several self-releases that rivaled, and in many cases surpassed, albums with major-label support. In a just world, all of these artists would have record deals, and perhaps some day, their big break will come. In the meantime, they're ours to treasure. »Read Full Article
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The Doomsday Clock is an internationally recognized design that conveys how close we are to destroying our civilization with dangerous technologies of our own making. First and foremost among these are nuclear weapons, but the dangers include climate-changing technologies, emerging... Read More
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Located in the heart of Linkoping, this hotel is within a 10-minute walk of Linkoping Cathedral and Linkopings Garden Society. Stangebrofaltet and Saab Arena are also within 1 mi (2 km).
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The hotel offers a restaurant, a coffee shop/café, and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
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Aioli - This theme restaurant specializes in Spanish cuisine.
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- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
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By OERTEL HORST. , Strathcona Professor of Pathology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 479 pages, 132 illustrations including 6 colored plates. Renouf Publishing Co., Montreal: , 1927.. Price in cloth, $10.00.
The publisher heads his advertisement of this book with "A New View of Pathology." The author in his foreword says that "it will be apparent at once to those familiar with the subject that the scope and manner of the presentation differ in some important respects from those generally followed in textbooks. It is based on the method of teaching pathology at McGill, which deals with it primarily, not as a practical medical or premedical subject, but as a scientific and cultural branch of knowledge, and endeavors to up it in its proper setting. For this purpose the student is
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