{"product_id":"lost-in-curiosity-roberta-kwok-9781728275970","title":"Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures Into the Unknown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eResearchers spend most of their time mired in the \"messy middle\" of science, the opposite of a Eureka moment. It is these hidden stories that science journalist Roberta Kwok uncovers in\u003cem\u003e Lost in Curiosity\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe word \"science\" often brings to mind the image of a lone genius struck with a brilliant idea: a flash of insight, a thunderclap of clarity. But the reality is far more muddled. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter of this book follows scientists who were caught in the middle of their quests, many of them young graduate students or junior researchers who perform the day-to-day labor of science. Kwok joins them in the Arizona desert, at the edge of an abandoned uranium mine; at a wave laboratory in Oregon, wading in a pool of soggy, slightly smelly \"tutus\" intended to protect cities from storms; on a remote glacier in Greenland, flying over a massive crevasse that gashed the ice; and at a museum in Washington, watching the hair-raising (and also smelly) dissection of coyote carcasses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roberta Kwok\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1728275970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781728275970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sourcebooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.25h x 5.25w x 0.89d","brand":"Roberta Kwok","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088735613183,"sku":"9781728275970","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dd3f324e-57e8-4c26-80cb-01541fb568a9.jpg?v=1769106341","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lost-in-curiosity-roberta-kwok-9781728275970","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}