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Scientists’ Memoirs About Curiosity, Error, and Working With Others
Scientists’ Memoirs About Curiosity, Error, and Working With Others
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In common: Lab Girl
A field observation may take weeks of waiting. A lab may depend on a colleague whose work is easy to miss. In these firsthand accounts, scientists and mathematicians remember how they learned what...
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Reported Nonfiction About How Everyday Systems Work
Reported Nonfiction About How Everyday Systems Work
by book_guy  • 
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A package arrives, a light comes on, and a trash bag leaves the curb. These books follow the work and decisions behind ordinary events. Start with something you already do or use, then trace where...
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Travel Books That Listen to the People Who Live There
Travel Books That Listen to the People Who Live There
by book_guy  • 
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A visitor can pass through a town without knowing what anyone who lives there is worried about. These books keep the conversations that change what a traveler understands. Read one for the people...
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Biographies of Innovators With Complicated Lives
Biographies of Innovators With Complicated Lives
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The work someone leaves behind can be clearer than the life they led while making it. These biographies follow people who changed their fields and examine the decisions, relationships, and...
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People Who Changed Professions and Became Known for the Second
People Who Changed Professions and Became Known for the Second
by curious_compiler  • 
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A working life can have several chapters, and the break between them is often less tidy than a success story suggests. These people held substantial jobs before building a serious second vocation...
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People Whose Day Jobs Supported Remarkable Creative Work
People Whose Day Jobs Supported Remarkable Creative Work
by curious_compiler  • 
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Not every great writer, composer or artist lived on their art. These people kept substantial paid jobs, in insurance, medicine, banks, libraries, customs houses, laboratories and nurseries, while...
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Books About Work That Get the Small Details Right
Books About Work That Get the Small Details Right
by book_guy  • 
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Competence is usually less glamorous than it looks from the outside. These books notice the preparation, repetition, fatigue and awkward human exchanges that let a job continue. They range from...
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Writers Who Made Working Lives Worth Reading About
Writers Who Made Working Lives Worth Reading About
by book_guy  • 
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A fishing crew brings a boat home, a factory worker plans her next job, and a basket maker decides how to work with a piece of ash. The writers here pay attention to the knowledge and judgment...
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Books About Migration That Explain Systems as Well as Journeys
Books About Migration That Explain Systems as Well as Journeys
by book_guy  • 
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A job offer can open a route abroad. A missing document can close one, even after decades in the same country. These books follow people as they move, wait, settle, and sometimes return. Along the...
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Books That Make Hope Feel Earned
Books That Make Hope Feel Earned
by book_guy  • 
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Hope is more convincing when the work behind it remains visible. These novels, memoirs and reported accounts find it in practical care, resistance, persistent relationships and changed ways of...
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Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
by book_guy  • 
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A creative life is made from repeated decisions about materials, time, other people and the money needed to continue. These novels pay attention to that work across ceramics, textiles...
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Memoirs About Parenthood That Leave the Mess In
Memoirs About Parenthood That Leave the Mess In
by book_guy  • 
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A newborn needs feeding while a parent is still figuring out how to get through the night. A school meeting ends with more questions than answers. These memoirs stay close to the work of raising...
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History Told Through Ordinary People’s Lives
History Told Through Ordinary People’s Lives
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A midwife’s diary, a miller’s testimony, and a family’s embroidered sack each preserve a different part of the past. These books start with people whose lives rarely made it into official...
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Memoirs of Disability That Expand the Story Beyond Overcoming
Memoirs of Disability That Expand the Story Beyond Overcoming
by book_guy  • 
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An emailed menu means you can choose your own lunch. An art opening up a steep flight of stairs determines who gets to see the work. These memoirs follow disabled writers through school, jobs...
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Design Books That Change How You Notice Everyday Objects
Design Books That Change How You Notice Everyday Objects
by book_guy  • 
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The shape of a door handle tells your hand what to do, and the spacing on a sign changes how easily you can read it. These books give you ways to notice decisions like those in things you already...
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