Conversely, there was a genuine boom in fact books: biographical series, manuals of all sorts, popularized history, junior encyclopaedias.
The editor of the series, the "Manual" says, is "usually omitted, but see 17.92-93".
Before taking up his place he spent six months in Israel doing a series of manual jobs on a kibbutz.
It is then introduced into a mass spectrometer through a series of manual or computer-controlled valves.
They were using a series of manual winches that appeared to have been hung from nylon slings attached to a higher portion of the tower.
My mother looked thinner and noticeably aged from a series of manual jobs, and my father was no longer wearing a suit.
My father's qualifications, three O-levels, took him as far as a series of manual jobs: warehouse and factory work, and eventually a 35-year career as a postman in the Royal Mail.
The Mississippi River and Niagara Falls were Soth's early subjects, and he remains preoccupied by the American landscape and the American character in latest series, "Broken Manual," for which he sought out people living off the grid: survivalists, drifters, and recluses.
He dropped out of school, worked at a series of manual jobs, fathered several children, ran afoul of the law a few times, and lost family members, particularly his grandparents, who were dear to him.
