Base Ten

Name: Base Ten
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ISBN: 9781558615816

ISBN-10: 1558615814

ISBN-13: 9781558615816

Edition: 2009

Authors: Maryann Lesert

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Compelling and fiercely honest, Base Ten exposes the daily battles of women scientists fighting to preserve a family life and succeed in a discipline that functions on the archaic belief that every scientist has a "wife" at home. Based on the real lives of the distinguished scientists Sandra Moore Faber and Vera Rubin, this striking novel vividly captures the struggles of women in science. Reared to believe that she could do anything, astrophysicist Jillian Greer dreamed of going into space. When she and her research partner Kera Sullivan invented a specialized telescope, it looked as though these two dogged scientists would fulfill the dream they shared. But ten years later, as Kera trains…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication date: 2/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.60" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English