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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger is a non-fiction book by Marc Levinson charting the historic rise of the intermodal container (shipping container) and how it changed the economic landscape of the global economy. [1] [2] The New York Times called it "a smart, engaging book". [3]
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, And Food on Your Plate (UK: Deep Sea and Foreign Going (Portobello, 2013, ISBN 9781846272998 [1]) is a book by Rose George about the international shipping industry. In 2013 the 287 page book was published in New York City by ...
Books as Bridges is an international pen-pal program which partners Central Kentucky classrooms with classrooms in developing countries around the world. Through shared artwork and letters of participants, the program encourages students to develop higher reading levels, cultural awareness, and international friendships.
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ThriftBooks was founded in the summer of 2003 by Daryl Butcher and Jason Meyer. The two created software that organizes and lists thousands of book titles per day. [6] Since 2004, it has partnered with libraries, which provide unsorted books and get a share of the profits.
The Shipping News is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, [1] the U.S. National Book Award, as well as other awards. [2] It was adapted as a film of the same name which was released in 2001.
Books For Africa is the largest shipper of donated text and library books [1] to the region, shipping over 50 million books and serving all countries in Africa since 1988. In the fiscal year of 2020, BFA shipped 3.7 million books valued at over $38 million, 167 computers and e-readers containing nearly 300,000 digital books, and six law and ...
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