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Lab girl / Hope Jahren

By: Jahren, HopeMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: 290 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781101874936; 1101874937; 9781101873724; 1101873728Subject(s): Jahren, Hope | Paleobotanists -- Biography | Women botanists -- Biography | Biologists -- United States -- Biography | Geobiology -- Research -- Anecdotes | Austin (Minn.) -- BiographyGenre/Form: Autobiographies. | Anecdotes. | Biographies.
Contents:
Prologue -- Roots and leaves -- Wood and knots -- Flowers and fruit -- Epilogue
Summary: Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home
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Prologue -- Roots and leaves -- Wood and knots -- Flowers and fruit -- Epilogue

Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home

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