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9 produkter
Perfect Life
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
102 kr
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A research biologist hunts for a genetic disease marker that could hold the key to her fate—and those of two people she loves: "Absorbing." —Publishers WeeklyA young researcher at MIT, Jane Weiss is obsessed with finding the genetic marker for Valentine''s Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder. Her …
Only Woman in the Room
Why Science Is Still a Boys'' Club
E-bok, 2015
198 kr
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A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computer science In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set …
Maybe It's Me essays
On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman
Häftad, 2023
255 kr
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Eileen is too smart for the third grade, but when she gets a chance to be skipped ahead, she fails the test. The clownish school psychologist tries to gain her trust with an offer of Oreos, but she refuses. After all, he is a stranger and might try to poison her! This is the start of the author’s …
Paradise, New York
Inbunden, 1998
1011 kr
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We first meet Lucy Appelbaum, the heroine of Paradise, New York, n 1970, when she is a nine year old girl enjoying her family's Catskills hotel, the Garden of Eden. Ten years later, having found nothing else at which she can distinguish herself, she tries to save the Eden by capitalizing on a wave …
Paradise, New York
A Novel
Häftad, 2000
348 kr
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We first meet Lucy Appelbaum, the heroine of Paradise, New York, in 1970, as a nine-year-old girl enjoying her family's Catskills hotel, the Garden of Eden. Ten years later, having found nothing else at which she can distinguish herself, Lucy tries to save the Eden by capitalizing on a wave of …
Professor of Immortality A Novel
Inbunden, 2019
262 kr
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Professor Maxine Sayers once found her personal and professional life so fulfilling that she founded the Institute of Future Studies, a program dedicated to studying the effects of technology on our culture and finding ways to prolong human life. But when her beloved husband dies, she is so …
Professor of Immortality A Novel
Häftad, 2020
172 kr
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Professor Maxine Sayers once found her personal and professional life so fulfilling that she founded the Institute of Future Studies, a program dedicated to studying the effects of technology on our culture and finding ways to prolong human life. But when her beloved husband dies, she is so …
Maybe It's Me essays
On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman
Inbunden, 2022
253 kr
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Eileen is too smart for the third grade, but when she gets a chance to be skipped ahead, she fails the test. The clownish school psychologist tries to gain her trust with an offer of Oreos, but she refuses. After all, he is a stranger and might try to poison her! This is the start of the author’s …
