Lab girl / Hope Jahren.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016Copyright date: 2016Edition: First editionDescription: 290 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781101873724
- 580.92 B 23
- QH31.J344 A3 2016
- Q 143 .J253
- BIO015000 | BIO022000 | SCI008000 | NAT026000 | BIO026000
- cci1icc
- coll13
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, 2017
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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BOOK | NCAR Library Foothills Lab | QH31 .J344 .A3 2016 | 1 | Available | 50583020010843 | ||
BOOK | NCAR Library Mesa Lab | QH31 .J344 .A3 2016 | 2 | Available | 50583020017368 |
"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.
National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, 2017