Letters to a young scientist
(Book - Regular Print)
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Published
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2013].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Status
Prescott College - CIRCCOLL - Circulating Collection
QH31.W64 A4 2013
1 available
QH31.W64 A4 2013
1 available
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Published
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2013].
Format
Book - Regular Print
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
UPC
40022242215
Notes
Description
At a time when the survival of our species and the rest of the living world is more than ever linked to our understanding of science, Pulitzer-Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, both young and old alike. Throughout his storied career, Wilson has counseled thousands of talented young people, and as a result has gleaned a deep knowledge, indeed a philosophy, of what one needs to know to have a successful career in science. In Letters to a Young Scientist, he lays out not just his practical advice for how the next generation can succeed, but why it is so vitally important that they do. Wilson threads these twenty letters with richly illustrated autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career--both his successes and his failures--and his motivations for becoming a biologist. Beginning with his ow coming-of-age in Mobile, Alabama, Wilson reflects on his adolescence as an enthusiastic Boy Scout, resolved to spend as much of his free time as possible outdoors, exploring the swamps and forests of the Gulf Coast and cataloging its many spiders, ants, snakes, and butterflies. Determined at first to reach the rank of Eagle Scout and then later to become an entomologist. Wilson describes an early passion tempered by education as being a guiding force in forging the arc of a career. Letters to a Young Scientist includes advice on choosing a field of study, finding a mentor, and the application of scientific theory in the real world. Yet Wilson insists that success in t eh sciences does not depend on mathematical skill or even a high IQ, but rather a passion for finding a problem and solving it. He calls more broadly for a synthesis of the sciences and humanities int he twenty-first century that can inspire a generation of young people, encourage their innate creativity, adn set them to work solving the problems that previous generations have woefully ignored.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Wilson, E. O. (2013). Letters to a young scientist (First edition.). Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wilson, Edward O. 2013. Letters to a Young Scientist. Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wilson, Edward O. Letters to a Young Scientist Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Wilson, Edward O. Letters to a Young Scientist First edition., Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
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