A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEAR A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait in technicolour detail. 'The definition of gripping. Truly, a trove of wyrd treasures.' BENJAMIN MYERS 'A lovingly researched history of British TV [that] recalls the brilliant, the bizarre and the unworldly.' GUARDIAN 'A reclamation, not just of a visual 'golden age', but of Britain as a darkly magical place.' THE SPECTATOR 'A feat of argument, description and affection.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Young unearths the ghosts of TV past - and Britain's dark psyche.' HERALD 'Highly entertaining . . . [A] fabulous treasure trove.' SCOTSMAN 'Young is a phenomonal scholar.' OBSERVER 'Impassioned.' THE CRITIC Growing up in the 1970s, Rob Young's main storyteller was the wooden box with the glass window in the corner of the family living room, otherwise known as the TV set. Before the age of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, YouTube and commercial streaming services, watching television was a vastly different experience. You switched on, you sat back and you watched. There was no pause or fast-forward button. The cross-genre feast of moving pictures produced in Britain between the late 1950s and late 1980s - from Quatermass and Tom Jones to The Wicker Man and Brideshead Revisited, from A Canterbury Tale and The Go-Between to Bagpuss and Children of the Stones, and from John Betjeman's travelogues to ghost stories at Christmas - contributed to a national conversation and collective memory. British-made sci-fi, folk horror, period drama and televisual grand tours played out tensions between the past and the present, dramatised the fractures and injustices in society and acted as a portal for magical and ghostly visions. In The Magic Box, Rob Young takes us on a fascinating journey into this influential golden age of screen and discovers what it reveals about the nature and character of Britain, its uncategorisable people and buried histories - and how its presence can still be felt on screen in the twenty-first century. '[A] forensic dissection . . . this tightly packed treatise takes pains to illustrate how what we view affects how we view ourselves.' TOTAL FILM

What if I told you that the last thing you want from a potential acquirer is a term sheet? Or that the casualty of a bidding war is often going to be you? Or the presentation you should use when you meet with investors is quite different from the one you should use with potential strategic partners? Or that moves a buyer may make to reduce their risk in an acquisition can end up increasing the chance that they don't achieve the full potential of the combination? Startup acquisitions are counterintuitive. Yet that doesn't mean they're impossible to navigate. Quite the contrary, the Magic Box Paradigm (MBP) is your guide to creating, optimizing, and closing startup acquisitions. The MBP is a holistic approach to creating opportunities for your startup to be acquired-the blueprint for being bought not sold. The MBP is going to put you in a position of strength in conversations with potential strategic partners, show you how to inspire them to create an actionable acquisition thesis, and then how to turn that thesis into an outperforming offer. Once the offer is on the table, the MBP is going to give you the tools to close the deal. And if you like the book - join the community at www.mbp.co

Sometimes the best part of a gift a child receives is the box it came in. This book tells the story of how a young boy and his sister use their imaginations and a simply decorated cardboard box as they play and take fantastic trips to faraway places and meet exotic, imaginary creatures. The illustrations are beautiful, simple, and look like pages in a coloring book. This book will encourage your kids to lay down the electronics and use their vivid imaginations and creativity to go on exciting adventures and make incredible journeys to exotic places.

A young girl is given a box of tricks for her birthday and conjures up a polar bear, lots of rabbits and a big party.

"Hannah Maynard...established her own Photographic Gallery in the colonial town of Victoria, British Columbia, in the early 1860s... [Her] photographs, however, are interesting for more than historical reasons. She experimented with every new photographic technique and was not only in the vanguard of experimentalism, but she developed a vision that was surreal and unique, unmatched in its aesthetic inerest until the 1920s... When her work is combined with that of her husband's, as it is in this book, the result is a rare record of a time, a place, and a unique vision, the vision of a Canadian genius"--from front jacket flap.

This book is a fun and engaging way for children to learn about practical life skills relevant to banking through a magical, adventurous story. Financial literacy is key to navigating the complex world we live in. This is a must-read for young children (ages 7 -11). Set in the fictitious tropical town of Lokpuram, the story follows the lives of two children, Rahul and Ananya, and a magical creature called Buroh Young, who are all faced with a money-related problem. Though the worlds of the children and the magical creature are distinct, their paths intersect, taking them on an adventure. From reading this book, children can learn about what a simple bank is and other understand other key concepts such as savings, borrowing and interest rates.

A beautiful collection featuring all of Kit Wright's finest poems. It includes poems from his bestselling and universally loved collections, Hot Dog, Rabbiting On, Cat Among the Pigeons and Great Snakes and many other treasures too. from The Magic Box I will put in the box the swish of a silk sari on a summer night, fire from the nostrils of a Chinese dragon, the tip of a tongue touching a tooth. I will put in the box a snowman with a rumbling belly, a sip of bluest water from Lake Lucerne, a leaping spark from an electric fish.

A high school basketball player's smoking may disqualify her from the big game.

In order to prevent extraterrestrial attacks on the planet of Gala, the Galaxy Gala sent the third fleet of space to travel in the galaxy's space. The captain of the Warrior ship of the third fleet of space of Gala is Marty, His son, Bernado, was curious about the galaxy's space, often nagging with his father to take him to the Galactic space.One day,Marty finally allowed Bernado with him aboard the Warrior ship. When the Warrior warship of the third fleet of space of Gala planet closed to the Earth, Marty told Bernado that it was the Earth, inhabited by humans, Though Technology was lagging behind, people on the planet lived a very wealthy life. It piqued Bernado鈥檚 interest in the earth. He quietly landed on Earth without his father's permission. He met the thief girl Liwy on earth, and then met miss Lisa and miss Cathy of the Global jewelry company.And then he was involved in a commercial battle among Global Jewelry company,Henry Jewellery company, Century jewelry company and New Age Jewelry company.He has repeatedly rescued Global Jewelry Company's miss Lisa and miss Cathy's life many times and rescued Global Jewelry company from the brink of bankruptcy.The captain of the Knight warship of the Gala planet's the second fleet of space was Leon, his daughter Adline Always admired Bernado and hoped she would become his wife in the future. She burst into tears when she found Bernado loved the girl on earth.Her father, Leon, had an attack on the earth after he had known it, and in order to avoid the attack of the Knight warship, Bernado finally took his girlfriend to a hard-to-find Emin planet near the galactic black hole and lived a happy life in reclusion.