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Ranked #11 in Botany, Ranked #13 in Plant — see more rankings.
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also so much more.
Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren’s stories: 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 learned to perform lab work done “with both the... more
Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren’s stories: 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 learned to perform lab work done “with both the... more
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Rankings by Category
Lab Girl is ranked in the following categories:
- #62 in 2016
- #37 in Academia
- #74 in Biology
- #64 in Bipolar
- #58 in Ecology
- #66 in Environment
- #28 in Environmental Science
- #58 in Environmental Studies
- #95 in Flower
- #59 in Hawaii
- #77 in Horticulture
- #57 in Mathematician Biography
- #59 in Memoir
- #28 in Nature
- #44 in STEM
- #70 in Science
- #71 in Scientific