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Lab Girl

Hope Jahren

  • Bindwijze: Paperback
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Biografieën & Waargebeurd
  • ISBN: 9780349006208
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:02 maart 2017
Aantal pagina's:304
Illustraties:Nee
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:Hope Jahren
Hoofdauteur:Hope Jahren
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Product breedte:126 mm
Product hoogte:31 mm
Product lengte:198 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:113 mm
Verpakking hoogte:30 mm
Verpakking lengte:194 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:547 g
Overige kenmerken
Product breedte:126 mm
Product hoogte:31 mm
Product lengte:198 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:113 mm
Verpakking hoogte:30 mm
Verpakking lengte:194 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:547 g

Samenvatting

A frank, illuminating and incandescent memoir by a trailblazing scientist; a moving portrait of a longtime collaboration in work and life; and a book that casts a whole new light on the natural world.

'Leaves become elegant machines, soil is the interface between the living and the dead, and seeds, well, they are transformed into the most patient and hopeful of all life forms. Jahren has such a passion for the natural world that it's hard to imagine her in any role other than her current one . . . Lab Girl is her engaging new memoir, which tells the story of her fight to establish and fund her own research laboratory. And it's been a fascinating journey' Lucie Green, Observer

'Clear and compelling but also fiercely tender . . . Jahren refuses to pretend that scientists don't quite often come with more than their share of peculiarities. She captures so precisely the way they dress, talk, and occasionally misunderstand stuff that others take for granted . . . I love Jahren's enthusiasm for her work, an all-encompassing passion for which she won't apologise and which makes her indomitable' Rachel Cooke, New Statesman

'[Lab Girl] does for botany what Oliver Sacks's essays did for neurology' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

'A fascinating account of plants, love and obsession' Annabel Venning, Mail on Sunday