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Whatever you celebrate — or if you’re just into Winter Solstice gift-giving, you can give the gift of books to friends and family that you want to indoctrinate into the wonderful world of labor and occupational safety and health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you will thank me for giving you lots of good ideas. In case you haven’t ventured over the the Resources and Books<\/a> page of Confined Space (up there at the top), you will find a list of more than 20 books that might educate, activate and change lives. Or at worst, just entertain. Some of them are hard to find (all the more challenging), but others are just a click or two away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shop now. You’re already too late for Hanukkah, but there’s always that surprise New Year’s gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whatever you celebrate — or if you’re just into Winter Solstice gift-giving, you can give the gift of books to friends and family that you want to indoctrinate into the wonderful world of labor and occupational safety and health.  They will thank you. And you will thank me for giving you lots of good ideas. 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