Jeff Dean

This powerful and inspiring book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town....

Pulitzer Prize–winning authorSiddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher,selects the year’stop science and nature writing fromjournalists who dive into their fields with curiosity and passion, deliveringmust-read articlesfrom a wide array of fields....

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 s...