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Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls is the debut short story collection of author Alissa Nutting, winner of the Sixth Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. [1] The book was a ForeWord Book of the Year finalist, as well as an Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal finalist for thought-provoking texts.
A pet Fischer's lovebird just out of reach of a young child A pet cockatiel on the hand of its companion. While many parrot species do well with well-behaved children, and can be excellent family pets, they are generally not a good child's pet due to their potential lifespan and care required. Parrots require consistent daily care and attention ...
Lots of Americans hold unique jobs, but few can claim to be one out of only 130 people worldwide. That's about how many aviary veterinarians -- professionals trained to understand the medical ...
The wood engraver Thomas Bewick's 1797–1804 A History of British Birds brought affordable illustrations to the public for the first time, and the book formed in effect the first field guide to birds, [118] [119] while John James Audubon's enormous [120] and impressive images of birds in his 1827–1838 Birds of America are among the most ...
Is there a stigma about skilled trades jobs? Nearly 10 million jobs across America are still vacant because of society’s ‘harebrained’ decisions and college push, says ‘Dirty Jobs’ host ...
Robison of San Francisco was a family-owned bird and animal importer, pet-supply producer, and retail pet shop that began operating during the California Gold Rush and endured until at least 1989. As the Saturday Evening Post put it in 1953, "from the turn of the century to the [19]20s the Robison store was the world center for the big-animal ...
If you’re looking for a job that pays well and you’re willing to get your hands a little dirty, here are 20 jobs paying more than $50,000 a year.
Christian Cooper (born 1963) is an American science writer and editor, and also a comics writer and editor. He is based in New York City. In 2023, Random House published Cooper's memoir, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World.