Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage. This item is unavailable.Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage

For the past 20 years the U. of Arizona's Garbage Project has sifted, sorted, and classified a quarter of a million pounds of garbage. Rathje, the director of the Garbage Project, and Murphy, managing editor of The Atlantic monthly , tell us what our garbage tells about us. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

"A mother lode of valuable information . . . There ain't no flies on this book."--Wall Street Journal

"It demolishes myths that hamper our ability to act sensibly; as a nice bonus, it entertains as it goes about its business."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Readers will be impressed by Rathje and Murphy's delightfully fresh take on the human foibles and the garbage heaps of history."--Washington Post Book World

"A lucid and provocative book."--New York Times Book Review

"An almost joyous iconoclasm about a vexatious subject."--Boston Sunday Globe

"A lucid and provocative book."--New York Times Book Review

"A mother lode of valuable information . . . There ain't no flies on this book."--Wall Street Journal

"[Rubbish!] demolishes myths that hamper our ability to act sensibly; as a nice bonus, it entertains as it goes about its business."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Readers will be impressed by Rathje and Murphy's delightfully fresh take on the human foibles and the garbage heaps of history."--Washington Post Book World

"An almost joyous iconoclasm about a vexatious subject."--Boston Sunday Globe

"[Rathje and Murphy] cull from the record astonishing data to counter many a myth. . . . A refreshing treatment of a subject not usually associated with refreshment."--Kirkus Reviews

"This lively study is an informative and often entertaining introduction to the science of garbology."--Contemporary Sociology