Hope Jahren

National BestsellerWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Film Prize for Excellence in Science BooksFinalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardOne of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, TIME.com, NPR, Slate, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Kirkus ReviewsGeobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life--but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father's college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work "with both the heart and the hands." She introduces us to Bill, her brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she extends the mantle of scientist to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her in observing and protecting our environment. Warm, luminous, compulsively readable, Lab Girl vividly demonstrates the mountains that we can move when love and work come together.

From the bestselling author of Lab Girl comes a slim, urgent missive on the defining issue of our time: here is Hope Jahren on climate change, our timeless pursuit of more, and how the same human ambition that got us here can also be our salvation. A Vintage Original.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, showing us how we can use less and share more. It is the essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it.

In this brand new reimagining, Mary Jane—the red-headed spark from Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", who stole Huck's heart in just 30 pages—comes to life with her own story of adventuring down the Mississippi River in the 1840's.* * *Meet Mary Jane Guild — she’s on a dangerous and unpredictable adventure down the Mississippi River — and she’ll steal Huck Finn’s heart along the way.In these chapters you’ll come to know the real Mary a girl on her own dangerous and unpredictable journey down the Mississippi River in pre–Civil War America. Equipped with an uncanny ability for mathematics, a talent for sewing, and a bale of beaver skins, Mary Jane navigates deadly illnesses, angry mobs, treacherous landowners, outright thieves and swindlers, and more than a thousand miles of muddy water. What’s more, she thrives in the face of these challenges, thanks to support from a caring boat captain, generous neighbors, a cheery peddler, a chosen family, a loyal and loving dog, and two hardworking horses. Traveling solo requires Mary Jane to grow up fast, but it ultimately leads her to a new resilience, a love of adventure, deep and enduring sisterhood, and a blue-eyed, pony-tailed boy she can’t stop thinking about.Jahren offers a wealth of layered characters and deeply researched, authentic details of changing times in the North and South. Using the language and style of Twain and shifting the point of view to a smart and determined young woman, she explores timeless themes of duty, family, romance, and betrayal, with grit and courage at the core.

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.

«Il mio obiettivo è informare, non spaventare, perché ho scoperto che la paura ci fa voltare le spalle a un problema, mentre l'informazione ci fa avvicinare.» Per questo, la geochimica e geobiologa statunitense Hope Jahren ha dedicato anni a catalogare una sconfinata serie di dati. Dati che descrivevano la crescita demografica, come si è intensificata l'agricoltura, come sono saliti alle stelle i consumi energetici nell'ultimo mezzo secolo. Jahren li ha setacciati alla ricerca di pattern ricorrenti riproponendosi di quantificare i cambiamenti in atto a livello globale nei termini più precisi e concreti possibili. Lo scopo? Presentare la crisi climatica senza catastrofismi né semplificazioni, senza avventurarsi in azzardate previsioni, ma concentrandosi su quanto è già successo, su quanto il nostro pianeta è cambiato negli ultimi decenni. Perché solo così possiamo davvero persuaderci a cambiare rotta.Con rigore scientifico e ironia, l'autrice osserva come la costante ricerca del benessere scandisca da sempre il ritmo del progresso umano. Ma la nostra rapacità ci spinge a consumare più del necessario, piuttosto che a condividere gli avanzi della nostra ricchezza. Basti pensare che, su scala globale, dal 1969 a oggi la produzione di cereali e di carne è triplicata, eppure gli scarti di cibo sono aumentati a tal punto da essere pari alla quantità che servirebbe a sfamare tutte le persone denutrite del mondo. L'analisi di Jahren rivela come sia questo insaziabile bisogno di abbondanza ad aver imposto al pianeta un cambiamento.Il lato oscuro dell'abbondanza è un vibrante appello alla civiltà del benessere affinché ripensi il legame fra la cultura dello spreco di alcuni e lo stato del pianeta di tutti. Perché, seppur drammatica, la situazione si può ancora salvare.

« Tout commencement est la fin d’une attente. Il nous est donné à tous une seule chance d’exister. Chacun de nous est à la fois impossible et inévitable. Chaque arbre majestueux a d’abord été une simple graine qui a su attendre son heure. » Passionnée par la nature depuis l’enfance, Hope Jahren a consacré sa vie à l’étude des arbres et des plantes. Aujourd’hui considérée comme l’une des femmes les plus brillantes au monde, son parcours a pourtant été semé d’embûches. Seules sa persévérance et une foi absolue en ses valeurs lui ont permis de concrétiser ses rêves. Ce récit autobiographique est celui d’un éveil au monde, celui d’une fille qui grandit avec les arbres et apprend progressivement, à leur contact, à affronter l’adversité pour devenir toujours plus forte. Si Hope Jahren célèbre ici le génie du végétal, du sol et de la nature, c’est pour partager ce qu’il peut nous inspirer et nous enseigner. Ce livre est aussi le portrait sensible et émouvant d’une amitié indéfectible avec Bill, son fidèle et fantasque collègue. Les histoires qu’elle nous raconte sont une ode à la curiosité, à l’humilité et à la passion, et autant de preuves que le travail et l’amour peuvent déplacer des montagnes. La fille qui aimait les arbres est une invitation à devenir maître de sa vie ainsi qu’un plaidoyer pour la protection de notre environnement. Viscérale, lumineuse et drôle, Hope Jahren nous convie à l’observation. Avec les yeux, mais aussi avec les mains et le coeur.

Barcelona. 23 cm. 332 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta. Colección 'Paidós contextos'. Traducción de María José Viejo Pérez e Ignacio Villaró Gumpert. Subtítulo de una historia de árboles, ciencia y amor. En la Bestseller de The New York Times. Título Lab girl. Geobiología. Investigación .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 9788449333125; 9788449333064