A Quantum Life (Adapted for Young Adults)
My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
$31.30
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
10 September 2024
Summary
A NASA astrophysicist narrates his improbable journey from an impoverished childhood and an adolescence mired in drugs and crime to the nation’s top physics PhD program at Stanford in this inspiring coming-of-age memoir.
Born into extreme poverty and emotional deprivation, James Edward Plummer was blessed with a genius I.Q. and a love of science. But in his community, a young bookworm quickly becomes a target for violence and abuse. As he struggles to survive his childhood in some of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781984849663 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1984849662 |
| Author: | Hakeem Oluseyi, Joshua Horwitz |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 10 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 210mm |
| Audience Age: | 12 |
Critics Review
★ “This absorbing, suspenseful memoir….will keep readers riveted.” —Booklist, starred review
“Unflinchingly honest; a memoir in which young readers can find useful lessons.” —Kirkus Reviews
“By celebrating a Black academic in the STEM field, this scientist’s memoir envisions a place for anyone who has a dream that the possibility is there to achieve it.” —School Library Journal
Hakeem Oluseyi
Hakeem Oluseyi is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, television personality, and public speaker. Since 2007, he has been a professor of physics and space sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, and has served at the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He appears regularly on the Science Channel’s highly popular program, Outrageous Acts of Science, as well as other science shows produced by Discovery, Inc.
Joshua Horwitz is the author of the New York Times bestseller War of the Whales: A True Story, which won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
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