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 made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about.But the container did...

From the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its futureGlobalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevitable nor planned. It is also one of the most contentious issues of our time. While it may have made goods less expensive, it has also sent massive flows of money across borders and shaken the global balance of power. Outside the Box offers a fresh and l...

The decades after World War II were a golden age across much of the world. It was a time of economic miracles, an era when steady jobs were easy to find and families could see their living standards improving year after year. And then, around 1973, the good times vanished. The world economy slumped badly, then settled into the slow, erratic growth that had been the norm before the war. The result was an era of anxiety, uncertainty, and political extremism that we are still grappling with t...

From modest beginnings as a tea shop, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company became the largest retailer in the world. It was a juggernaut, with nearly sixteen thousand stores. But its explosive growth made it a mortal threat to mom-and-pop grocery stores across the nation. Main Street fought back tooth and nail, leading the Hoover, Roosevelt, and Truman administrations to investigate the Great A&P. In a remarkable court case, the government pressed criminal charges against the company f...

« Sans conteneur, il n’y aurait pas de mondialisation. » The Economist « Un classique, un récit de destruction créatrice. Intelligent et captivant. L’un des meilleurs livres d’économie de tous les temps. » The New York Times « Une histoire économique de grande envergure, une aventure fascinante… » The Times « Le conteneur a facilité les échanges, accéléré les livraisons, baissé les coûts et augmenté l’offre de biens partout dans le monde… » The Wall Street Journal « Levinson offre de merve...

From the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its futureGlobalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevitable nor planned. It is alsoone of the most contentious issues of our time. While it may have made goods less expensive, it has also sent massiveflows of money across borders and shaken the global balance of power. Outside the Box offers a fresh and lively historyof ...

In An Extraordinary Time, acclaimed economic historian Marc Levinson recounts the global collapse of the postwar economy in the 1970s. While economists struggle to return us to the high economic growth rates of the past, Levinson counterintuitively argues that the boom years of the 1950s and 1960s were an anomaly; slow economic growth is the norm—no matter what economists and politicians may say. Yet these atypical years left the public with unreasonable expectations of what gover...

The acclaimed team that brought us 1968 turns to another year that shook the world with a collection of nonfiction writings by renowned young-adult authors.“The Rights of Man.” What does that mean? In 1789 that question rippled all around the world. Do all men have rights—not just nobles and kings? What then of enslaved people, women, the original inhabitants of the Americas? In the new United States a bill of rights was passed, while in France the nation ...

Ao ler este resumo, o senhor vai descobrir como o uso do recipiente foi imposto principalmente pela vontade de um homem, Malcolm McLean. O senhor tomará conhecimento das turbulências na economia mundial causadas por essa caixa e verá como a geografia do próprio porto mudou.O senhor também vai descobrir que :O contêiner criou raízes antes que alguém pudesse adivinhar a extensão da agitação que ele traria;Malcolm McLean resolveu todas as dificuldades que retardavam o ...

What is justice? Great political philosophers from Plato to Rawls have traditionally argued that there is a single, principled answer to this question. Challenging this conventional wisdom, David Miller theorized that justice can take many different forms. In Forms of Justice, a distinguished group of political philosophers takes Miller's theory as a starting point and debates whether justice takes one form or many. Drawing real world implications from theories of justice and exam...

Médecine et Santé de l'Adolescent est un ouvrage de référence qui aborde les problématiques médicales, somatiques, psychologiques et psychiatriques, sociales et culturelles de l'adolescent.Il s'adresse à tous les professionnels des équipes médicales et soignantes, mais aussi à ceux accompagnant les adolescents dans différents contextes (Aide Sociale à l'Enfance, Protection Judiciaire de la Jeunesse), milieux sociaux et médico-sociaux, Éducation nationale, Justice, associations. Il leur fou...