When Giants Come to Play

When Giants Come to Play

Author: Andrea Beaty

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2006-09-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780810957596

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Anna spends her days in the company of gentle giants.


The Book of Giant Stories

The Book of Giant Stories

Author: David L. Harrison

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781563979767

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Includes "The Little Boy's Secret", "The Giant Who Was Afraid of Butterflies", and "The Giant Who Threw Tantrums."


Small Giants

Small Giants

Author: Bo Burlingham

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-10-11

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1101992336

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How maverick companies have passed up the growth treadmill — and focused on greatness instead. It’s an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, making great contributions to their communities, and finding great ways to lead their lives. In Small Giants, veteran journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside fourteen remarkable companies that have chosen to march to their own drummer. They include Anchor Brewing, the original microbrewer; CitiStorage Inc., the premier independent records-storage business; Clif Bar & Co., maker of organic energy bars and other nutrition foods; Righteous Babe Records, the record company founded by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco; Union Square Hospitality Group, the company of restaurateur Danny Meyer; and Zingerman’s Community of Businesses, including the world-famous Zingerman’s Deli of Ann Arbor. Burlingham shows how the leaders of these small giants recognized the full range of choices they had about the type of company they could create. And he shows how we can all benefit by questioning the usual definitions of business success. In his new afterward, Burlingham reflects on the similarities and learning lessons from the small giants he covers in the book.


Fall of Giants

Fall of Giants

Author: Ken Follett

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-08-30

Total Pages: 1010

ISBN-13: 1101543558

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Ken Follett’s magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .


Odd and the Frost Giants

Odd and the Frost Giants

Author: Neil Gaiman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2009-10-05

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0747598118

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A tender, humorous and compelling tale of Viking adventure by multi-award-winning author Neil Gaiman.


Just the Right Size

Just the Right Size

Author: Nicola Davies

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2011-03-08

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 0763653004

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This book uses cartoon-style art and geometry to explain the relationship between an animal's size and its abilities.


Lost Race of the Giants

Lost Race of the Giants

Author: Patrick Chouinard

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-09-28

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1591438330

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An exploration of mythological and archaeological evidence for prehistoric giants • Examines the many corresponding giant mythologies throughout the world, such as the Greek and Roman titans, Norse frost giants, and the biblical Nephilim • Reveals recent finds of giant skeletons in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and India • Explains how giants passed on their sophisticated culture and civilization to humanity before being wiped out in the great age of cataclysms and floods Giants are a cornerstone of the myths, legends, and traditions of almost every culture on Earth. Stories of giants are often considered fantasies of the ancients or primitive attempts to explain natural phenomena, but archaeological discoveries of 10- and 12-foot skeletons--many of which have been suppressed--confirm the existence of a forgotten golden age of giants before recorded history. Patrick Chouinard examines the staggering number of corresponding giant mythologies throughout the world, such as the Greek and Roman titans, Norse frost giants, the Hindu Daityas, the biblical Nephilim, the Celtic Formorach, the Sumerian Anunnaki, and the multitude of myths in which the sky or world is held aloft on the shoulders of a giant. He links these stories to Atlantis as well as other legends of prehistoric civilizations lost to cataclysm and great floods whose survivors spawned the rise of ancient civilizations. The author reveals how physical remains of giant-size peoples have been found on almost every continent, including recent finds in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and northern India as well as hundreds of excavations of giant mummies and skeletons across the United States, corresponding directly with Native American accounts of red-haired giants. He also examines reports from famous explorers such as Magellan, Sir Francis Drake, and Desoto of their encounters with giants on the North American continent. Revealing how giants represent the true earthborn race, Chouinard explains how they engaged in open conflict with the extraterrestrial gods who created humanity for forced labor and how they passed their sophisticated culture and civilization on to humanity before being nearly wiped out in the great age of cataclysms.


Giants of Land, Sea & Air, Past & Present

Giants of Land, Sea & Air, Past & Present

Author: David Peters

Publisher: Random House Children's Books

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

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Discusses body size in the animal kingdom and depicts giants from past and present, both individual specimens and those belonging to large species such as the prehistoric giants. Includes gate-fold pages showing the very largest animals.


Small Giants

Small Giants

Author: Bo Burlingham

Publisher: Portfolio Trade

Published: 2007-03-27

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781591841494

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Profiles fourteen companies that have achieved high levels of success by focusing on the quality of their products and services, rather than their bottom-line profits, in a guide for small businesses that reveals how to earn consistent revenues by becoming purpose-driven. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.