LIVES RUINS PB - Johnson, Marilyn
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Marilyn Johnson, the author of two acclaimed books about quirky subcultures?The Dead Beat (about obituary writers) and This Book Is Overdue! (about librarians)?brings her irrepressible wit and curiosity to bear on yet another strange world, that of archaeologists. Who chooses to work in ruins? What's the allure of sifting through layers of dirt under a hot sun? Why do archaeologists care so passionately about what's dead and buried?and why should we? Johnson tracks archaeologists around the globe from the Caribbean to the Mediterranean, from Newport, Rhode Island, to Machu Picchu. She digs…mehr

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Marilyn Johnson, the author of two acclaimed books about quirky subcultures?The Dead Beat (about obituary writers) and This Book Is Overdue! (about librarians)?brings her irrepressible wit and curiosity to bear on yet another strange world, that of archaeologists. Who chooses to work in ruins? What's the allure of sifting through layers of dirt under a hot sun? Why do archaeologists care so passionately about what's dead and buried?and why should we? Johnson tracks archaeologists around the globe from the Caribbean to the Mediterranean, from Newport, Rhode Island, to Machu Picchu. She digs alongside experts on an eighteenth-century sugar plantation and in a first-century temple to Apollo. She hunts for bodies with forensic archaeologists in the vast and creepy Pine Barrens of New Jersey, drinks beer with an archaeologist of ancient beverages, and makes stone tools like a caveman. By turns amusing and profound, Lives in Ruins, with its wild cast of characters, finds new ways to consider what is worth salvaging from our past.
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Health educator and English instructor by profession, writer by nature, Marilyn Johnson spent thirty years in Asia traveling, teaching, raising a family, and collecting fascinating anecdotes about animals. She also served as managing editor of a monthly health periodical and a church news magazine. In addition to this collection, Johnson has authored books on heart disease and diabetes, both of which have been published abroad in several languages. Now retired, Marilyn continues to enjoy traveling, quilting, waterfalls, and wildflowers, and recounting her clan's experiences with creatures great and small. She is daily inspired by the words of 1 John 3:1: "See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!" (NIV)