Hope Jahren

An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime collaboration, in work and in life; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see and think about the natural world Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book might have been a revelatory treatise on plant life. Lab Girl is that, but it is also so much more. Because in it, Jahren also shares with us her inspiring life story, in prose that takes your breath away. Lab Girl is a book about work, about love, and about the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the things she's discovered in her lab, as well as how she got there; about her childhood--hours of unfettered play in her father's laboratory; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to perform lab work "with both the heart and the hands"; about a brilliant and wounded man named Bill, who became her loyal colleague and best friend; about their adventurous, sometimes rogue research trips, which take them from the Midwest all across the United States and over the Atlantic, from the ever-light skies of the North Pole to tropical Hawaii; and about her constant striving to do and be the best she could, never allowing personal or professional obstacles to cloud her dedication to her work. Jahren's probing look at plants, her astonishing tenacity of spirit, and her insights on nature enliven every page of this book. Lab Girl allows us to see with clear eyes the beautiful, sophisticated mechanisms within every leaf, blade of grass, and flower petal, and also the power within ourselves to face--with bravery and conviction--life's ultimate challenge: discovering who you are.

Lab Girl

"Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit--which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon--but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly warming our planet to dangerous levels. In short, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions--from electric power to large-scale farming and automobiles--that, even as they help us, release untenable amounts of carbon dioxide. She explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases--from superstorms to rising sea levels--and the science-based tools that could help us fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of warming and a capsule history of human development, The Story of More illuminates the link between our consumption habits and our endangered earth. It is the essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it"--

How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

The Story of More

Lab Girl - A Jornada de uma cientista entre plantas e paixões

A Story of Trees, Science and Love

Best-selling author Hope Jahren edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing.

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017

Story of More

This young adult adaptation of acclaimed geochemist and geobiologist Hope Jahren's highly respected nonfiction work is the perfect book for those interested in learning about climate change and how they can contribute to creating a more sustainable future. Hope Jahren, acclaimed geochemist and geobiologist, details the science behind key inventions, clarifying how electricity, large-scale farming, and automobiles have both helped and harmed our world. Jahren explains the current and projected consequences of unchecked global warming, from superstorms to rising sea levels, resulting from the unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases being released into our atmosphere. The links between human consumption habits and our endangered existence are very real, with consequences leading to a crossroads of survival and extinction. Still, Jahren maintains that our ever-broadening science-based knowledge can help us counter this dilemma. The eye-opening information provided in The Story of More will help readers understand the path we must take. If we collectively make informed choices now, Jahren reassures us, our future can be as bright as we imagine it can be.

The Story of More (Adapted for Young Adults)

Lab girl. La mia vita tra i segreti delle piante

En El afán sin límite, Jahren nos desvela la relación directa entre los hábitos humanos y la situación actual de peligro que vive nuestro planeta. A través de los capítulos de ágil lectura de este libro, la autora nos explica la historia detrás de los grandes inventos científicos – empezando por la energía eléctrica, la agricultura a gran escala y la fabricación en cadena de los automóviles-, que, a pesar de sus grandes beneficios para la humanidad, liberan gases de efecto invernadero a nuestra atmósfera como nunca antes lo habían hecho. A continuación, Jahren explica las consecuencias actuales y futuras de la emergencia climática global – tanto en forma de grandes temporales como en el aumento del nivel del mar- y las acciones que todos podemos emprender para luchar contra ella. El afán sin límite es un relato único en el que la voz personal e inimitable de Hope Jahren logra combinar de forma vivaz la explicación científica de los mecanismos del cambio climático y su historia personal. Un libro imprescindible que dejará una huella indeleble en todo aquel que lo lea.

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