book-reviews
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Nickel and Dimed. On (not) getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich (ISBN 9780805063899, Henry Holt & Company)
I finally read this book last week after it had been sitting on a shelf for a decade. Ehrenreich is a journalist who got asked by a publisher to write a piece about the living conditions of low wage workers in America. She decided to find out by getting such a job herself and mimic…
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Lise Meitner. A Life in Physics, Ruth Lewin Sime (ISBN 978-0-520-20860-5, University of California Press)
This is the second biography of Lise Meitner I read. After reading the biography by Patricia Rife I was at first hesitant to also go and read this book by Ruth Lewin Sime. But after finishing the book I have to say it was well worth every minute. Where the biography of Patricia Rife focused…
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Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, Patricia Rife (ISBN 978-0817637323, Birkhäuser)
A very nice biography about one of the ‘forgotten’ women of science. I came across a reference to this book somewhere and decided to read it as part of my ‘atomic’ theme. It also fits nicely into a series of books I am reading about women scientists. I had read the excellent ‘The making of…
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