Lab girl / Hope Jahren.
By: Jahren, Hope.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016Edition: First edition.General Notes: "A Borzoi Book.".Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.Description: 290 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781101874936 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1101874937 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Jahren, Hope | Biologists -- United States -- Biography | Geobiology -- Research -- AnecdotesDDC classification: 570.92 | BItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 570.92 J198 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003734217 |
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"A Borzoi Book."
Includes bibliographical references.
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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