Lab Girl: A Memoir

Discover the power of Lab Girl: A Memoir - 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 TimesA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyIn 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.

📚 WHAT YOU'LL GET:

·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.

·Kirkus Reviews

·Best Nonfiction Book of the Century

👤 Author: Hope Jahren

📋 PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS:

·Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

·Publication date: February 28, 2017

·Language: English

·Print length: 304 pages

·ISBN-10: 1101873728

·ISBN-13: 978-1101873724

·Dimensions: 5.19 x 0.69 x 8 inches

·Item Weight: 2.31 pounds

·Edition: Reprint

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