
Lab Girl
Jahren, Hope
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ISBN10: 1101873728
ISBN13: 9781101873724
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Feb 28 2017
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781101873724
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Feb 28 2017
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life--but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. Does for botany what Oliver Sacks's essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gould's writings did for paleontology. --The New York Times In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father's college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work with both the heart and the hands. She introduces us to Bill, her brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she extends the mantle of scientist to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her in observing and protecting our environment. Warm, luminous, compulsively readable, Lab Girl vividly demonstrates the mountains that we can move when love and work come together.
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