Bøker av Andrea Barrett

Focusing on developing states, this book captures and deliberates on best models to build their capacity and capability to become innovative. It emphasizes the organic links among economic growth, innovation, and wealth creation through entrepreneurship. In addition, it identifies and discusses some of the key factors that are required for the development of national systems to support an innovation-centric culture that is essential for the sustained socioeconomic transformation of developing states.

Servants of the Map sweeps through two centuries, from the Western Himalayas to the Adirondacks, conjuring characters that travel through the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A mapper of the highest mountain peaks realizes his true obsession. A young woman afire with scientific curiosity must come to terms with a romantic fantasy. Brothers and sisters, torn apart at an early age, are beset by dreams of reunion. As we move through these richly layered tales, Andrea Barrett weaves subtle connections among the stories within this collection and characters in her earlier works.

A young boy comes of age amid an explosion of homespun investigations. A widowed science writer tries to reconcile the influence of emotion on scientific theory. A famous biologist finds himself outpaced by his students, even as he seeks to teach them. As the characters in this "elegant, thought-provoking" (Connie Ogle, Miami Herald) collection witness the world transform around them through groundbreaking discoveries-the flight of an early aeroplane, Darwin's theory of evolution, developments in genetics and X-ray technology-they grapple with the thrill and loss that accompanies scientific progress, and the personal passions and impersonal politics that shape all human knowledge. Throughout these deftly plotted stories, Andrea Barrett weaves subtle connections among the tales within this collection and characters in her earlier works.

"[Andrea Barrett's] work stands out for its sheer intelligence The overall effect is quietly dazzling." New York Times Book Review"

Exceptional tales of emancipation and evolution at the birth of the modern era. Winner of US National Book Award.'Andrea Barrett's work stands out for its sheer intelligence. The overall effect is quietly dazzling.' New York TimesSet against the backdrop of the nineteenth century, this elegant collection of stories take their impulse from the world of science. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they illuminate the secret passions of those driven by a devotion to, and an intimate acquaintance with, the natural world.'Barrett's stories fascinate...she pulls us into them as into fast-moving water.' San Francisco Chronicle'Beautiful stories about the wonder and work of science. The title novella describes the horrors of typhus in the newly arrived Irish immigrants to Quebec, and suggests that, in epidemics, medicine is more a piece of politics than a form of science. In Barrett's hands, science is transformed from hard and known fact into malleable, strange and thrilling fictional material.' Boston Globe'An extraordinary story collection. Barrett blends a sure grasp of the history and method of science into each of her evocative tales.' Chicago Tribune'Many of these stories are set in the late nineteenth century, the adolescence of modern science. Barrett's women are often scoffed at for their love of learning. Some try to use science as a currency with which to buy acceptance in a male-dominated world. But no character relates only to his or her work. Barrett builds her fictions like stones thrown into prose ponds: science is the stone, while human dramas, personal and social, are the concentric rings that radiate beautifully outward.' Newsday

Here in the crisp, mountain air where wealthy tuberculosis patients recover in private cottages and charity patients, mostly European emigres, fill the sanatorium, time stands still.