Glass, Paper, Beans : Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things

As technology makes certain kinds of information more accessible, other connections are irrevocably lost. Here Cohen traces three simple commodities on their geographic & semantic journey from her table to their various points of origin. She provides intimate portraits of three workers -- Ruth Lamp, a nightshift supervisor at the Anchor Hocking glass factory in Ohio; Brent Boyd, a 3rd-generation lumberjack from Canada; & Basilion Salinas, a man who tends the coffee trees at Pluma Hidalgo, Mexico. Cohen braids the lives of these three unforgettable workers as she traces the origins, myths, & manufacture of glass, paper, & the beloved coffee bean.Cohen, Leah Hager is the author of 'Glass, Paper, Beans : Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things', published 2002 under ISBN 9780756758073 and ISBN 0756758076.