LAB GIRL
by Hope Jahren
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 1101873728
- ISBN 13
- 9781101873724
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Vintage/Penguin Random House, 2017. Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/a whisper of shelfwear. Admired literary memoir & botanist. Author, geochemist, geobiologist & professor, Hope Jahren, won the Nat'l Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, New York Times notable book, and American Assoc's Advancement of Science for Excellence in Science Books, and top honors from Washington Post, Time, NPR, Newsday, Minneapolis Star Tribune & Kirkus Reviews among others. First published 206; this is the 2017 paperback printing. 304 pgs, presented in 3 parts between Prologue & Epilogue. Part I, Roots & Leaves; II, Wood & Knots; and III, Flowers & Fruit. Each Part covers an aspect of plant biology, which serves as metaphors for her life's passage from early schooling, demands of advanced studies in science, the importance of having a like-minded colleague in the lab, and social patterns of behavior encountered in contemporary institutions of higher learning such as distribution of funding, and, not excluding base sexism. A treatise on plant life and human life from a poetic hand.
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- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020220
- Title
- LAB GIRL
- Author
- Hope Jahren
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1101873728
- ISBN 13
- 9781101873724
- Publisher
- Vintage/Penguin Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- Memoir/Botany/Trees/University Life
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