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Author : Virginia Grant Clammer
Release : 1999-01-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 494/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Big Box by : Virginia Grant Clammer
Download or read book The Big Box written by Virginia Grant Clammer. This book was released on 1999-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill and his little sister Kay enjoy playing in a big box, which becomes in turn a car, a jet, and the engine of a train.
Author : Toni Morrison
Release : 1999-09-10
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Big Box by : Toni Morrison
Download or read book The Big Box written by Toni Morrison. This book was released on 1999-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because they do not abide by the rules written by the adults around them, three children are judged unable to handle their freedom and forced to live in a box with three locks on the door.
Author : Bart Elmore
Release : 2024-04-15
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 944/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Big Box USA by : Bart Elmore
Download or read book Big Box USA written by Bart Elmore. This book was released on 2024-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Box USA presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosystems in the last half century. From the rural South to the frigid North, from inside stores to ecologies far beyond, this book examines the relationships that make up one of the most visible features of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century American life. The rise of big box retail since the 1960s has transformed environments on both local and global scales. Almost everyone has explored the aisles of big box stores. The allure of “everyday low prices” and brightly colored products of every kind connect shoppers with a global marketplace. Contributors join a growing conversation between business and environmental history, addressing the ways American retail institutions have affected physical and cultural ecologies around the world. Essays on Walmart, Target, Cabela’s, REI, and Bass Pro Shops assess the “bigness” of these superstores from “smokestacks to coat racks” and contend that their ecological impacts are not limited to the footprints of parking lots and manufacturing but also play a didactic role in educating consumers about their relationships with the environment. A model for historians seeking to bring business and environmental histories together in their analyses of merchant capital’s role in the landscapes of everyday life and how it has remade human relationships with nature, Big Box USA is a must-read for students and scholars of the environment, business, sustainability, retail professionals, and a general audience.
Author : Diana Perkins
Release : 1992
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 437/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Big Box and Other Stories by : Diana Perkins
Download or read book The Big Box and Other Stories written by Diana Perkins. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Way, renowned for its phonic focus and success with generations of children, has always been committed to a balanced phonic approach.
Author : Stacy Mitchell
Release : 2007-10-01
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 016/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Big-Box Swindle by : Stacy Mitchell
Download or read book Big-Box Swindle written by Stacy Mitchell. This book was released on 2007-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Book Sense Pick and Annual Highlight With a New Afterword In less than two decades, large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising pollution and diminished civic engagement—and she shows how a growing number of communities and independent businesses are effectively fighting back. Mitchell traces the dramatic growth of mega-retailers—from big boxes like Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Costco, and Staples to chains like Starbucks, Olive Garden, Blockbuster, and Old Navy—and the precipitous decline of independent businesses. Drawing on examples from virtually every state in the country, she unearths the extraordinary impact of these companies and the big-box mentality on everything from soaring gasoline consumption to rising poverty rates, failing family farms, and declining voting levels. Along the way, Mitchell exposes the shocking role government policy has played in the expansion of mega-retailers and builds a compelling case that communities composed of many small, locally owned businesses are healthier and more prosperous than those dominated by a few large chains. More than a critique, Big-Box Swindle provides an invigorating account of how some communities have successfully countered the spread of big boxes and rebuilt their local economies. Since 2000, more than two hundred big-box development projects have been halted by groups of ordinary citizens, and scores of towns and cities have adopted laws that favor small-scale, local business development and limit the proliferation of chains. From cutting-edge land-use policies to innovative cooperative small-business initiatives, Mitchell offers communities concrete strategies that can stave off mega-retailers and create a more prosperous and sustainable future.
