The only woman in the room : why science is still a boys' club / Eileen Pollack.
The only woman in the room : why science is still a boys' club / Eileen Pollack.
The only woman in the room : why science is still a boys' club / Eileen Pollack.
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Boston : Beacon Press, [2015]
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G 2015/4077
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English
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xxii, 266 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Bright college years -- Leaving Liberty -- A different kind of math -- Science fair -- Science unfair -- Advanced placement -- Surviving Yale -- Freshman disorientation -- Too much male hormone -- Electricity and magnetism -- The philosophy of existence -- X-10, Y-12, K-25 -- Life on other planets -...
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Boston : Beacon Press, [2015]
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Massachusetts
Date Published
[2015]
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"Eileen Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and 70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist. Denied the chance to take advanced courses in science and math, she nonetheless made her way to Yale, where, despite finding herself far behind the men in her classes, she went on to graduate, summa cum laude, with honors, as one of the universit...
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The only woman in the room : why science is still a boys' club / Eileen Pollack.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-266).
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G 2015/4077
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74VKRjlR2yrO
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9780807046579 hardcover
0807046574 hardcover
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305.420973
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991023256819702626
