The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries (Häftad)
avMarilyn Johnson
ISBN: 9780060758769 - UTGIVEN: 2007-02A wry study of the cult and culture of the obituary assesses what our fascination with these unique human-interest stories reveals about our feelings about death, offering a survey of the obituary, in all its diversity. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.[...]
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All (Häftad)
avMarilyn Johnson
ISBN: 9780061431616 - UTGIVEN: 201101Buried in info? Cross-eyed over technology? From the bottom of a pile of paper, disks, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives comes a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians--they can help Those who predicted the death of libraries forgot to consider that, in the automated maze of contemporary [...]
Lives in Ruins (Inbunden)
avMarilyn Johnson
ISBN: 9780062127181 - UTGIVEN: 2014-11Finding Life in RuinsJump into a battered Indiana Jones-style Jeep with the intrepid Marilyn Johnson and head down bone-rattling roads in search of those who dig up the past. Johnson, the author of two acclaimed books about quirky subcultures-The Dead Beat (about obituary writers) and This Book Is O[...]
