Should be required read for all middle to upper class HS students to explain working class blue collar underpinnings of economy. This segment of our population gets further detached from how "stuff" happens or is made each generation. For all our technology & progress we still have and should app...
A collection of essays, most originally published in GQ or Smithsonian, that explore the "hidden" lives and jobs that keep America running. These include coal miners, landfill workers, air traffic controllers, migrant laborers picking berries, cattle ranchers, a long distance trucker, and workers...
If I could give this book negative stars I would. I know I have only myself to blame for any pain I endured; a book about adoption that has the subtitle "The Mother of All Adventures" is pretty clearly labeled "Reader Beware".The author returns again to her same, tired formula (Quirky country ne...
the paleontologist said. I’m guessing he had to say that because everyone was inferring behavior from the fossil. I saw a picture of it in a magazine and felt depressed for days. The fossil was found in Liaoning in northeastern China and at its center is an adult Psittacosaurus, a small, squat di...