Lab Girl is a book about work and about love and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together It is told through Jahren s remarkable stories about the discoveries she has made in her lab as well as her struggle to get there about her childhood playing in her father s laboratory about how lab work became a sanctuary for both her heart and her hands about Bill the brilliant wounded man who became her loyal colleague and best friend about their field trips sometimes authorised sometimes very much not that took them from the Midwest across the USA to Norway and to Ireland from the pale skies of North Pole to tropical Hawaii and about her constant striving to do and be her best and her unswerving dedication to her life s work Visceral intimate gloriously candid and sometimes extremely funny Jahren s descriptions of her work her intense relationship with the plants seeds and soil she studies and her insights on nature enliven every page of this thrilling book In Lab Girl we see anew the complicated power of the natural world and the power that can come from facing with bravery and conviction the challenge of discovering who you are
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Abacus
ISBN: 9780349006208
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 384
Tiempo de lectura:
7h 56m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 02/03/2017
Año de edición: 2017
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Hope Jahren
Hope Jahren es una de las 100 personas más influyentes del mundo según la revista Time. Ha recibido tres premios Fulbright en geobiología y es además la única mujer a la que se le ha otorgado la Medalla para Jóvenes Investigadores en Ciencias de la Tierra, distinción que únicamente han obtenido otros tres científicos. Elegida por la revista Popular Science como una de las jóvenes científicas más brillantes del año 2005, ha impartido clases en diversas universidades de Estados Unidos. En la actualidad es profesora titular en la Universidad de Hawái.