Avoid Boring People
Subtitle: Lessons from a Life in Science
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Knopf
Published: September 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780375412844
Subjects: Dna (Deoxyribonucleic Acid); Scientists; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Science; Biography/Autobiography; General; Personal Memoirs; Scientists - General; Science / General; Biography; Molecular biologists; United States
Table of contents: title: Foreward; title: Preface; title: 1. Manners Acquired as a Child; title: 2. Manners Learned While an Undergraduate; title: 3. Manners Picked Up In Graduate School; title: 4. Manners Followed by the Phage Group; title: 5. Manners Passed on to an Aspiring Young Scientist; title: 6. Manners Neded for Important Science; title: 7. Manners Practiced as an Untenured Professor; title: 8. Manners Deployed for Academic Zing; title: 9. Manners Noticed as a Dispensable White House Adviser; title: 10. Manners Appropriate for a Nobel Prize; title: 11. Manners Dmanded by Academic Ineptitude; title: 12. Manners Behind Readable Books; title: 13. Manners Required for Academic Civility; title: 14. Manners for Holding Down Two Jobs; title: 15. Manners Maintained When Reluctantly Leaving Harvard; title: Epilogue; title: Cast of Characters; title: Remembered Lessons