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The container principle : how a box changes the way we think / Alexander Klose ; translated by Charles Marcrum II.
LIBRA TA1215 .K5813 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klose, Alexander, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Infrastructures series
- Standardized Title:
- Container-Prinzip. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Containerization--History.
- Containerization.
- Containerization--Social aspects.
- Container ships--History.
- Container ships.
- Unitized cargo systems--History.
- Unitized cargo systems.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Introduction : The accident
- Time capsules
- What is a container?
- Sea-land
- Container histories
- Logistics: the power of a third party
- Computing with containers
- Life in cells
- Container world.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Das Container-Prinzip : wie eine Box unser Denken verändert. Published: Hamburg : Mare Verlag, 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262028578
- 0262028573
- OCLC:
- 879370825
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