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The World in a Box

Author : Anke te Heesen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226322872
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book The World in a Box written by Anke te Heesen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about a box that contained the world. The box was the Picture Academy for the Young, a popular encyclopedia in pictures invented by preacher-turned-publisher Johann Siegmund Stoy in eighteenth-century Germany. Children were expected to cut out the pictures from the Academy, glue them onto cards, and arrange those cards in ordered compartments—the whole world filed in a box of images. As Anke te Heesen demonstrates, Stoy and his world in a box epitomized the Enlightenment concern with the creation and maintenance of an appropriate moral, intellectual, and social order. The box, and its images from nature, myth, and biblical history, were intended to teach children how to collect, store, and order knowledge. te Heesen compares the Academy with other aspects of Enlightenment material culture, such as commercial warehouses and natural history cabinets, to show how the kinds of collecting and ordering practices taught by the Academy shaped both the developing middle class in Germany and Enlightenment thought. The World in a Box, illustrated with a multitude of images of and from Stoy's Academy, offers a glimpse into a time when it was believed that knowledge could be contained and controlled.

The Box

Author : Marc Levinson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691170819
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Box written by Marc Levinson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that reshaped manufacturing. But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, years of high-stakes bargaining, and delicate negotiation on standards. Now with a new chapter, The Box tells the dramatic story of how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur turned containerization from an impractical idea into a phenomenon that transformed economic geography, slashed transportation costs, and made the boom in global trade possible. -- from back cover.

Outside the Box

Author : Gail Anderson
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616894768
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Outside the Box written by Gail Anderson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of slick, computer-generated type and Photoshopped perfection, hand-drawn packing is enjoying a global resurgence. As shorthand for something more authentic, homegrown, handmade, or crafted, hand-drawn packaging is found on everything from supermarket eggs to Chipotle drink cups. In this exhaustive and lavishly illustrated survey, organized by four types—DIY, art, craft, and artisanal—Gail Anderson pulls back the curtain on the working processes and inspirations of forty letterers, illustrators, and designers from all around the world through insightful interviews, process sketches, and her infectious love of the medium.

The Phone Box at the Edge of the World

Author : Laura Imai-Messina
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 178658042X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book The Phone Box at the Edge of the World written by Laura Imai-Messina and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Absolutely breathtaking' Christy Lefteri, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo. We all have something to tell those we have lost . . . On a windy hill in Japan, in a garden overlooking the sea stands a disused phone box. For years, people have travelled to visit the phone box, to pick up the receiver and speak into the wind: to pass their messages to loved ones no longer with us. When Yui loses her mother and daughter in the tsunami, she is plunged into despair and wonders how she will ever carry on. One day she hears of the phone box, and decides to make her own pilgrimage there, to speak once more to the people she loved the most. But when you have lost everything, the right words can be the hardest thing to find . . . Then she meets Takeshi, a bereaved husband whose own daughter has stopped talking in the wake of their loss. What happens next will warm your heart, even when it feels as though it is breaking... The Phone Box at the Edge of the World is an unforgettable story of the depths of grief, the lightness of love and the human longing to keep the people who are no longer with us close to our hearts. Everyone is talking about The Phone Box at the Edge of the World 'A moving and uplifting anatomisation of grief and the small miraculous moments that persuade people to start looking forward again' Sunday Times 'Strangely beautiful, uplifting and memorable, it's a book to savour' Choice, Book of the Month 'A poignant, atmospheric novel dealing with love, coming to terms with loss and the restoration of one's self' Daily Mail 'A story about the dogged survival of hope when all else is lost . . . A striking haiku of the human heart' The Times 'Beautiful. A message of hope for anyone who is lost, frightened or grieving' Clare Mackintosh, Sunday Times bestselling author of After the End 'Incredibly moving. It will break your heart and soothe your soul' Stacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars 'Mesmerising . . . beautiful . . . a joy to read' Joanna Glen, Costa shortlisted author of The Other Half of Augusta Hope 'Spare and poetic, this beautiful book is both a small, quiet love story and a vast expansive meditation on grieving and loss' Heat 'A perfect poignant read' Woman & Home

Devices of Wonder

Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892365906
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Devices of Wonder written by Barbara Maria Stafford and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 13 November 2001 to 3 February 2002.

Eric Carle

Author : Eric Carle
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780141359458
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Eric Carle written by Eric Carle and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine chunky board books packed full of Eric Carle's fantastic animals - turn over for a Very Hungry Caterpillar puzzle surprise! Who lives in the jungle? What can you see in your pond? Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar and all his animal friends in this sturdy box with magnetic closure, containing nine mini board books perfect for little hands to explore. Each book is full of amazing animals, and the back covers join together to make a beautiful Very Hungry Caterpillar puzzle. With classic, stylish Eric Carle artwork, this is a great gift collection that children will love.

Lucky Breaks

Author : Yevgenia Belorusets
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811229858
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Breaks written by Yevgenia Belorusets and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful, off-beat stories about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing war in Ukraine Out of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets’s captivating collection of stories emerge from the ruins of a war, still being waged on and off, ever since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. Through a series of unexpected encounters, we are pulled into the ordinary lives of these anonymous women: a florist, a cosmetologist, card players, readers of horoscopes, the unemployed, and a witch who catches newborns with a mitt. One refugee tries unsuccessfully to leave her broken umbrella behind as if it were a sick relative; a private caregiver in a disputed zone saves her elderly charge from the angel of death; a woman sits down on International Women’s Day and can no longer stand up; a soldier decides to marry war. Belorusets threads these tales of ebullient survival with a mix of humor, verisimilitude, the undramatic, and a profound Gogolian irony. She also weaves in twenty-three photographs that, in lyrical and historical counterpoint, form their own remarkable visual narrative.

Inside the Box

Author : Drew Boyd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145165930X
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Inside the Box written by Drew Boyd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The ‘inside-the-box approach’ can reveal key opportunities for innovation that are hiding in plain sight” (Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive). The traditional attitude toward creativity in the American business world is to “think outside the box”—to brainstorm without restraint in hopes of coming up with a breakthrough idea, often in moments of crisis. Sometimes it works, but it’s a problem-specific solution that does nothing to engender creative thinking more generally. Inside the Box demonstrates Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT), which systemizes creativity as part of the corporate culture. This counterintuitive and powerfully effective approach to creativity requires thinking inside the box, working in one’s familiar world to create new ideas independent of specific problems. SIT’s techniques and principles have instilled creative thinking into such companies as Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, and other industry leaders. Inside the Box shows how corporations have successfully used SIT in business settings as diverse as medicine, technology, new product development, and food packaging. Dozens of books discuss how to make creative thinking part of a corporate culture, but none takes the innovative and unconventional approach of Inside the Box. With “inside the box” thinking, companies of any size can become sufficiently creative to solve problems even before they develop and to innovate on an ongoing basis. It’s a system that works! “Boyd and Goldenberg explain the basic building blocks for creativity and by doing so help all of us better express our potential” (Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational).

Pandora’s Box

Author : Jörn Leonhard
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 067424480X
Total Pages : 1105 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Pandora’s Box written by Jörn Leonhard and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 1105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize “The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict.” —Richard J. Evans, Times Literary Supplement In this monumental history of the First World War, Germany’s leading historian of the period offers a dramatic account of its origins, course, and consequences. Jörn Leonhard treats the clash of arms with a sure feel for grand strategy. He captures the slow attrition, the race for ever more destructive technologies, and the grim experiences of frontline soldiers. But the war was more than a military conflict and he also gives us the perspectives of leaders, intellectuals, artists, and ordinary men and women around the world as they grappled with the urgency of the moment and the rise of unprecedented political and social pressures. With an unrivaled combination of depth and global reach, Pandora’s Box reveals how profoundly the war shaped the world to come. “[An] epic and magnificent work—unquestionably, for me, the best single-volume history of the war I have ever read...It is the most formidable attempt to make the war to end all wars comprehensible as a whole.” —Simon Heffer, The Spectator “[A] great book on the Great War...Leonhard succeeds in being comprehensive without falling prey to the temptation of being encyclopedic. He writes fluently and judiciously.” —Adam Tooze, Die Zeit “Extremely readable, lucidly structured, focused, and dynamic...Leonhard’s analysis is enlivened by a sharp eye for concrete situations and an ear for the voices that best convey the meaning of change for the people and societies undergoing it.” —Christopher Clark, author of The Sleepwalkers

Gangsta Granny

Author : David Walliams
Publisher : HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780008147419
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Gangsta Granny written by David Walliams and published by HarperCollins Children's Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spectacularly special anniversary edition is illustrated in glorious colour for the very first time and contains a unique introduction from the author.Gangsta Granny is one of David Walliams' best-loved and critically acclaimed books - heartfelt and uplifting, it has been successfully adapted for both stage and screen. A highly collectable edition for fans old and new.

Klara and the Sun

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593318188
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Klara and the Sun written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is “an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a poignant meditation on love and loneliness” (The Associated Press). • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

Viva la Pizza!

Author : Scott Wiener
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612193072
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Viva la Pizza! written by Scott Wiener and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “New Yorkers are particular about pizza, and no one has a more well-formed opinion than Scott Wiener.” —Newsday One of the world’s foremost pizza experts presents more than 100 weird and wild pizza box designs Since the origins of to-go pizza, pizzerias and pizza chains have taken great pride in covering take-out boxes with captivating designs. They’ve also wrestled with the best way to manufacture a box that can keep a pizza looking and tasting great. Here, the world’s expert on pizza boxes presents more than one hundred weird and wild box designs and explores the curious history of the pizza box. Included are international designs, corporate designs, and dozens of quirky images from mom-and-pop pizzerias. Where does all this art come from? Scott Wiener has been collecting and cataloging pizza boxes for more than five years. In Viva la Pizza!, Wiener traces design trends over the past four decades and profiles some of the world’s most prolific box designers and manufacturers. The result is a captivating overview of pizza culture and a new way to look at one of the world’s favorite foods.

Boxes

Author : Susanne Bauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912729067
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Boxes written by Susanne Bauer and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book full of boxes. A box in itself. An unboxing. This book explores boxes in their broadest sense and size. It invites us to step into the field, unravel how and why things are contained and how it might be otherwise. By turning the focus of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to boxing practices, this collation of essays examines boxes as world-making devices. Gathered in the format of a field guide, it offers an introduction to ways of ordering the world, unpacking their boxed-up, largely invisible politics and epistemics. Performatively, pushing against conventional uses of academic books, this volume is about rethinking taken-for-granted formats and infrastructures of scholarly ordering - thinking, writing, reading. It diverges from encyclopedic logics and representative overviews of boxing practices and the architectural organization of monographs and edited volumes through a single, overarching argument. This book asks its users to leave well-trodden paths of linear and comprehensive reading and invites them to read sideways, creating their own orders through associations and relating. Thus, this book is best understood as an intervention, a beginning, an open box, a slim volume that needs expansion and further experiments with ordering by its users.

Outside the Box

Author : Marc Levinson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227098
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Outside the Box written by Marc Levinson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers a brief history of globalization through the stories of the people and companies that built global supply chains. The two spheres - the private sector and government - did not go global in tandem, and many developments in one sphere were far more impactful in the other than imagined at the time. The book narrates the development of global supply chains in response to trends in both, telling stories ranging from a Prussian-born trader in New Jersey in the 1760s who dreamed of building a vertically-integrated metals empire, to new megaships too big to call on most of the world's ports leaving half empty, as globalization entered a new stage in its history around 2006. Bringing the story up to the early 2020s, the author illustrates how we're not experiencing the end of globalization, only its transformation. As one type of globalization is declining, a new one is on the rise. --

Anna Hibiscus

Author : Atinuke
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536226939
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Anna Hibiscus written by Atinuke and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed Nigerian storyteller Atinuke, the first in a series of chapter books set in contemporary West Africa introduces a little girl who has enchanted young readers. Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa, amazing Africa, with her mother and father, her twin baby brothers (Double and Trouble), and lots of extended family in a big white house with a beautiful garden in a compound in a city. Anna is never lonely—there are always cousins to play and fight with, aunties and uncles laughing and shouting, and parents and grandparents close by. Readers will happily follow as she goes on a seaside vacation, helps plan a party for Auntie Comfort from Canada (will she remember her Nigerian ways?), learns firsthand what it’s really like to be a child selling oranges outside the gate, and longs to see sweet snow. Nigerian storyteller Atinuke’s debut book for children and its sequels, with their charming (and abundant) gray-scale drawings by Lauren Tobia, are newly published in the US by Candlewick Press, joining other celebrated Atinuke stories in captivating young readers.

The Box that Changed the World

Author : Arthur Donovan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Box that Changed the World written by Arthur Donovan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was donated by the Containerization and Intermodal Institute (CII), an organization that makes an annual scholarship to the University of Baltimore in support of Merrick School of Business students pursuing a career in the trade and transportation industries.

The Original Peter Rabbit Books

Author : Beatrix Potter
Publisher : Frederick Warne & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780723251781
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Original Peter Rabbit Books written by Beatrix Potter and published by Frederick Warne & Company. This book was released on 1990-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: /Beatrix Potter Now Potter fans can complete their collection of Potter's 23 "little books" with this boxed set containing titles 13-23. From the adventures of Pigling Bland and Samuel Whiskers, to the nursery rhymes of Appley Dapply and Cecily Parsely, this handsome boxed set will be a family favorite for years to come! The Following are as Followed The Tale Of Johnny Town-Mouse, The Tale Of Mr.