What We Are Reading Today: On the clock by Emily Guendelsberger

Updated 27 August 2019
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What We Are Reading Today: On the clock by Emily Guendelsberger

This book takes us behind the scenes of the fastest-growing segment of the American workforce to understand the future of work in America — and its present, according to a review published on goodreads.com.

Guendelsberger shows us how workers went from being the most expensive element of production to the cheapest — and how low wage jobs have been remade to serve the ideals of efficiency, at the cost of humanity.

It explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Snakes of Australia’

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Updated 13 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Snakes of Australia’

  • It features introductions to each family, species descriptions, type locations, distribution maps, and quick-identification keys to each family and genera

Authors: TIE EIPPER AND SCOTT EIPPER 

With more than 1,000 photographs, Snakes of Australia illustrates and describes in detail all 240 of the continent’s species and subspecies—from file snakes, pythons, colubrids, and natricids to elapids, marine elapids, homalopsids, and blind snakes.

It features introductions to each family, species descriptions, type locations, distribution maps, and quick-identification keys to each family and genera. It also covers English and scientific names, appearance, range, ecology, disposition, danger level, and IUCN Red List Category.