The Big Box - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Big Box write by Toni Morrison. This book was released on 2002-07-08. The Big Box available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In her first illustrated book for children, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Toni Morrison introduces three feisty children who show grown-ups what it really means to be a kid.
Big-Box Swindle
Big-Box Swindle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big-Box Swindle write by Stacy Mitchell. This book was released on 2007-10-01. Big-Box Swindle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Meeow and the Big Box
Meeow and the Big Box - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meeow and the Big Box write by Sebastien Braun. This book was released on 2009. Meeow and the Big Box available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meeow, a black cat, plays with a big box.
Big Box Reuse
Big Box Reuse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big Box Reuse write by Julia Christensen. This book was released on 2008. Big Box Reuse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happens to the landscape, to community, and to the population when vacated big box stores are turned into community centers, churches, schools, and libraries? America is becoming a container landscape of big boxes connected by highways. When a big box store upsizes to an even bigger box "supercenter" down the road, it leaves behind more than the vacant shell of a retail operation; it leaves behind a changed landscape that can't be changed back. Acres of land have been paved around it. Highway traffic comes to it; local roads end at it. With thousands of empty big box stores spread across America, these vistas have become a dominant feature of the American landscape. In Big Box Reuse, Julia Christensen shows us how ten communities have addressed this problem, turning vacated Wal-Marts and Kmarts into something else: a church, a library, a school, a medical center, a courthouse, a recreation center, a museum, or other more civic-minded structures. In each case, what was once a shopping destination becomes a center of community life. Christensen crisscrossed America identifying these projects, then photographed, videotaped, and interviewed the people involved. The first-person accounts and color photographs of Big Box Reuse reveal the hidden stories behind the transformation of these facades into gateways of community life. Whether a big box store becomes a "Senior Resource Center" or a museum devoted to Spam (the kind that comes in a can), each renovation displays a community's resourcefulness and creativity--but also raises questions about how big box buildings affect the lives of communities. What does it mean for us and for the future of America if the spaces of commerce built by a few monolithic corporations become the sites where education, medicine, religion, and culture are dispensed wholesale to the populace?
Big Box Little Box
Big Box Little Box - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big Box Little Box write by Caryl Hart. This book was released on 2018-07-24. Big Box Little Box available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With bright, bold illustrations, this stylish picture book stars one cool cat and will have readers laughing with delight. Big box, little box Shoe box, hat box . . . Perfect for a cat box! Join one cool cat and lots of fun boxes in this charming take on curiosity and friendship.
