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Tower Dog: Life Inside the Deadliest Job in America
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Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica: Seven Miles of Sandy Beach
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Labor: One Woman's Work
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Workers
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The Cocktail Waitress: Women's Work in a Man's World
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What Work Is: Poems
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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960
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The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
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Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
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Building: A Carpenter's Notes on Life & the Art of Good Work
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Folklore from the Working Folk of America.
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Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
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An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work
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Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America
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Ingrained: An Uplifting Memoir about Woodworking and Craftsmanship
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Art Work: On the Creative Life
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On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters
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Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
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Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
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A Craftsman’s Legacy: Why Working with Our Hands Gives Us Meaning
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Life's Work: A Memoir
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Nice Work If You Can Get It: My Life in Rhythm and Rhyme
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Working for the Man, Playing in the Band: My Years with James Brown
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Pretend I'm Not Here: How I Worked with Three Newspaper Icons, One Powerful First Lady, and Still Managed to Dig Myself Out of the Washington Swamp
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In Your Face - A Cartoonist At Work
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Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance
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The Initiates: A Comic Artist and a Wine Artisan Exchange Jobs
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Hello, Friends!: Stories of Dating, Destiny, and Day Jobs
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Sex in the Museum: My Unlikely Career at New York's Most Provocative Museum
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Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist – A Fascinating True Crime Book Featuring the Harvey Weinstein and El Chapo Trials
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The Lure of the East: A Curator's Fascinating Journey
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
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Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
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The Mad World of William M. Gaines
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The Lady Whose Mouth I Set on Fire: True Tales from the ER
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Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters
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Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles
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A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
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The Reticent Archaeologist Unleashed: Memoirs of James Michael Wisenbaker
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Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
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Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings
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Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies: The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen (Missouri Biography Series) (Volume 1)
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Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States (Ripley P. Bullen Series)
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Panel Discussions: Design In Sequential Art Storytelling
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Professor in the Zoo: Designing the Future for Wildlife in Human Care
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The Push Pin Graphic: A Quarter Century of Innovative Design and Illustration
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Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman
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Brewed Awakening: Behind the Beers and Brewers Leading the World's Craft Brewing Revolution
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Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession
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The Lost World of the Craft Printer
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Weed Empire: How I Battled Gangsters, Investment Banks, and the Department of Justice to Build the Cannabis Industry in America
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You Have a Hammer: Building Grant Proposals for Social Change
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Show Your Art: How to Build an Art Career Without a Gallery
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What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities—One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time
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Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire
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My Life as a Restaurant
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Under the Big Top: A Season with the Circus – An Unforgettable Memoir of Childhood Fantasy and Clown Life
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Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers
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TRANSMOGRIFIED from a Redneck into an Engineer while working my way through Georgia Tech
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All in the Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song
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Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail (Creating the North American Landscape)
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Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor
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Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert
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Pretty In Ink: Women Cartoonists 1896-2013
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Last Girl Standing
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Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
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Clean Cabbage in a Bucket And Other Tales from the Irish Music Trenches
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Outside the Jukebox: How I Turned My Vintage Music Obsession Into My Dream Gig
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This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm
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Saving American Farmland: What Works
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Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
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Seaport: A Waterfront at Work
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In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work
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Annie Leibovitz at Work
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Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers
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Humorous Illustration: The Top Artists of Our Time Talk About Their Work
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Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work (A StoryCorps Book)
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Life in Museums, A: Managing Your Museum Career
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