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Summary: More advance praise for "Life in the Treetops"
Review: A lot has been said and written about the situation for women in science but something long missing is an account of what it is really like to live as a woman scientist, not a monastic Barabara McClintock but an ordinary woman with a full life as well as a passion for research. Meg Lowman's "Life in the Treetops" is just such an account, a moving book full of wonderful details of her personal experiences both quite unusual and wrenchingly familiar. Lowman tells well the fascinating story of her journey from scientist to housewife in the Australian outback to bed and breakfast owner to practicing scientist once again. It is a fun and rewarding ride tagging along with Dr. Lowman as she forges ahead. This is a warmly and graciously told story that will be of interest to women in science, women who have left science, women struggling with their own choices or wondering what lies ahead. -Carol Kaesuk Yoon of The New York TimesBotanist Lowman presents a wonderful mix of ecological research and life story. Her pioneering research...is fascinating and gives the reader a feel for the importance of canopy research in particular and ecological research in general. -Margaret Henderson, Library Journal, starred review [Lowman's book] is interwoven with wonderful stories of life teeming in rain forest tree tops. Her struggle for self-realization and fulfillment is told with directness and humor, while its twin tale of the emerging science of canopy biology...is compelling for anyone with an interest in natural history. -Georgia Tasker, The Miami Herald
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Summary: I love this book!
Review: A personal inspiration - and a fine read from cover to cover
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Summary: My thoughts on this book
Review: As a young woman who hopes with all her heart and works with all of her passion to be a scientist one day, I recommend this novel without a doubt. Dr. Lowman attacks every issue she faces head on, candidly describing her emotion and scientific endeavors as if the reader is a personal friend. As a female, I myself can relate to her described frustration of being a woman in a primarily male field. Even my closest male friends look at me with doubt and treat my five year love affair (ongoing, of course) with science as a joke simply because I am female (as the butt of their jokes imply). It's wondorous to read of other accounts involving similar emotion. On a scientific note, Dr. Lowman makes no adjustments for fear of the reader who does not care for biology; she writes about science just as she writes about emotion. For that, I urge parents to prod their children to read this memoir, adults to read, and all others to digest.
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Summary: A young woman's perspective
Review: As a young woman who hopes with all her heart and works with all of her passion to be a scientist one day, I recommend this novel without a doubt. Dr. Lowman attacks every issue she faces head on, candidly describing her emotion and scientific endeavors as if the reader is a personal friend. As a female, I myself can relate to her described frustration of being a woman in a primarily male field. Even my closest male friends look at me with doubt and treat my five year love affair (ongoing, of course) with science as a joke simply because I am female (as the butt of their jokes imply). It's wondorous to read of other accounts involving similar emotion. On a scientific note, Dr. Lowman makes no adjustments for fear of the reader who does not care for biology; she writes about science just as she writes about emotion. For that, I urge parents to prod their children to read this memoir, adults to read, and all others to digest.
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Summary: Combining motherhood and a scientific career: a page-turner.
Review: Dr. Lowman traces her origins from the Australian outback, raising two boys, to the pursuit of a scientific career as a world-renowned biologist specializing in the plants and insects of the rain-forest canopy. A highly personalized recounting of the travails and joys of being a female scientist and mother. A can't put-down book
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Summary: not all it could have been, but still quite good
Review: I enjoyed this, but it wasn't quite what I'd expected. It was occasionalty dense with scientific specifics. I'm sure that true scientists would love it, but personally I would have been more interested in additional biographical detail. Still, Lowman's career, and her life, are a fantastic accomplishment. It's fascinating to think about how much things have changed in a short time. I'm going to recommend it to women scientist friends of mine, but possibly not to armchair naturalists.
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Summary: An unusual peek into a young scientific explorer's life
Review: In one small book Dr. Lowman combines serious science, thoughtful reflections on expectations of self, family and scientific peers and fascinating descriptions of life in a threatened ecsystem. Best of all, she writes clearly and with great insight and wit.
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Summary: An absolutely wonderful book.
Review: Life in the Treetops is an absolutely wonderful book. Please take a look at the customer and press reviews for the hardcover edition of this book. They are far more eloquent reviewers that am I. This book was on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. It was an Editors Selection in Scientific American and in New Scientist(UK. Because of the book, Dr. Lowman has been featured in German GEO, in Sydney Morning Herald, in Italian Elle and in Seoul Korea's daily, all in their own languages. She has been interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air Living on Earth and the BBC. You are wondering if all of this is important? It is when the book is a memoir. I found Dr. Lowman to be a role model for me and for my child. Please read it. It will be important to you.
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Summary: An absolutely wonderful book.
Review: Margaret Lowman has undertaken some fascinating research on rain forest canopies, and she's also an excellent writer. So what's the problem? Well, she just can't stop using the phrase, "As a woman in field biology..." followed by some hardship that she endured in her career that she's certain was due to her gender. As a result, despite the fact that she is an accomplished scientist, this book is more about what she couldn't do than what she could.
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Summary: I really wanted to like this one, but...
Review: Margaret Lowman has undertaken some fascinating research on rain forest canopies, and she's also an excellent writer. So what's the problem? Well, she just can't stop using the phrase, "As a woman in field biology..." followed by some hardship that she endured in her career that she's certain was due to her gender. As a result, despite the fact that she is an accomplished scientist, this book is more about what she couldn't do than what she could.
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