Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

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

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century

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.

GUEST EDITOR HOPE JAHREN is a best-selling author of Lab Girl and an award-winning scientist. She currently resides in Oslo, Norway.

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ISBN 13	9781101873724
ISBN 10	1101873728
Title	Lab Girl
Author	Hope Jahren
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2017-02-28
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Winner of American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS)'s Science Books & Films Best List 2016, Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 2016, Short-listed for PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award 2017
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