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Author | : Marc Levinson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2016-04-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691170819 |
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.
Author | : Seth Godin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0698409000 |
"A one-two punch! Half kick in the ass, half cheerleading encouragement." —Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art If you are happy being just a dreamer, perhaps you don’t need this book. If you’re enjoying the status quo, don’t even consider reading this book. If you are content waiting for success to find you, please put this book down and go find something else to read. Why has Poke the Box become a cult classic? Because it’s a book that dares readers to do something they’re afraid of. It could be what you need, too. "Is Seth Godin the Pied Piper for however many of us have been afraid to fail? Will I answer his call? Will you?" —Peter Shermeta, reviewing the original edition of Poke the Box
Author | : Adam Grant |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1984815474 |
Adam Grant, the bestselling author of Give and Take, teams with his wife, Allison, to share the lighthearted tale of a gift in search of a giver--a classic in the making and the perfect conversation starter about thoughtfulness. This delightful book--one of Amazon's 2019 Holiday Gift Picks and Most Anticipated Books--is designed to start conversations with kids about generosity. In the tradition of Goodnight Gorilla, the words are intentionally spare. The book is meant to be read interactively, with adults posing questions so kids can guess what's happening (and why). Praised by both parents and teachers for sparking imagination and eliciting discussion, the story can be interpreted differently in every family, by every child, and reinterpreted many times over. Give the gift of this clever, earnest book about generosity--a new and nourishing fable for every child's library (and one that includes a delightfully innovative cover approach that requires the reader to unfasten the Velcroed cover for a fun unboxing effect!). It's a gift that keeps on giving. "Truly phenomenal . . . Kristen [Bell]'s favorite book we've read to the kids in a year." --Dax Shepard of the podcast "Armchair Expert"
Author | : Ouida Sebestyen |
Publisher | : Laurel Leaf |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999-10-20 |
Genre | : Kidnapping |
ISBN | : 9780440228738 |
"To Anybody Out There My name is Jackie McGee. I am the girl who disappeared. Listen to the news. See if other pieces of paper are scattered nearby. Maybe if you yell really loud I can hear you and yell back. I am not making this up. Please help! Left in an underground cement room by an unknown captor, Jackie has food and water but no light or human contact. She does not know when--or if--her abductor will retum. As her desperation mounts, Jackie touch-types to focus her mind: letters to her family, a story for her English class, and reflections on her life in the past few months. In her isolation and fear, Jackie is forced to test her emotional boundaries, and in doing so she finds new meaning in her past as well as rich reserves of strength and courage within herself.
Author | : Isabel Otter |
Publisher | : Tiger Tales |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2021-09-14 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 168010683X |
This interactive book, which features tactile, inviting textures and plenty of lift-the-flaps throughout, invites readers to use the clues to guess what is inside each box. In this interactive, engaging book, rhyming text and spirited illustrations invite readers to try to guess what object is hiding inside the box on each spread. Children are given clues as to the identity of the objects inside the boxes, which are decorated differently. Readers open one box that is hot and has smoke and flames pouring out of the holes; another that is wiggling around; one that is noisy; and another that is wrapped up with ribbons and a bow. Features tactile textures and lift-the-flaps throughout.
Author | : Drew Boyd |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 2013-06-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 145165930X |
“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).
Author | : Patrick Wirbeleit |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-06-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1603094490 |
Every kid knows a cardboard box can be magic. But what if it could talk? This funny, fast-paced graphic novel celebrates friendship and the fun of building new things. Matthew likes to build things. And invent things. So finding a box sitting in front of his house one day is a real stroke of luck. But he has to pinch himself when it suddenly starts talking. A living toolbox! Even better, Box loves to invent things too, so the two become fast friends. But where did Box come from, and how did he get to be so magical? When his secret comes out and accidentally leaves Matthew's parents frozen, the two friends will have to race to find the answers and save the day.
Author | : Antoinette Portis |
Publisher | : HarperFestival |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-09-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780061994425 |
A box is just a box . . . unless it's not a box. From mountain to rocket ship, a small rabbit shows that a box will go as far as the imagination allows. Inspired by a memory of sitting in a box on her driveway with her sister, Antoinette Portis captures the thrill when pretend feels so real that it actually becomes real—when the imagination takes over and inside a cardboard box, a child is transported to a world where anything is possible.
Author | : Peter Skeels |
Publisher | : Austin Macauley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2023-02-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1398468029 |
The Box tells the story of Rupert and Lucille; their lives, loves, families, achievements, and failures. Lucille is the last child born to a family of generationally poor dirt farmers, while Rupert is the only child born to multi-billionaire parents. Rupert and Lucille’s paths cross due to a confluence of seemingly random events, and, as their business relationship grows, so do their friendship, love, and respect grow for each other. The Box tells how a simple invention has the potential to transform not only their two lives, but the story tells how the invention has the potential to change the lives of thousands of people. Where does it all lead though? Does the invention lead to the good that Rupert first envisioned? Does the invention help Lucille out of her generational poverty? Does the invention help anybody? Or, is the old adage that says, “No good deed goes unpunished,” really true?
Author | : Lynn Deanne Childress |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2005-06-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1463480512 |
The Box of Captured Things is a classic fairy tale set in the late twentieth century. As the unnamed girl travels through Bulgaria and Romania with her dying father, the landscape she traverses includes elements of the Roman, Medieval, and now-dying modern civilizations that once occupied that space. Is the Box of Captured Things a prison that limits the freedom of its captives or a place of preservation? What is our proper relationship to history?