One Man's Purpose
A Novel
Published on 10. November 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-4602-7469-9 (ISBN)
Description
Life in the Academic Fast Lane
Martin Quint, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Cambridge Technology Institute, is at the top of his professional career. Beloved as a teacher and internationally lionized as a researcher, he enthusiastically embraces his academic overload. But with a baby on the way and a critical tenure case for a junior female colleague hanging by a thread, life throws more at Martin than he can juggle.
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Series
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4602-7469-9 (9781460274699)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Stephen D. Senturia spent 36 years as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the author of three prominent textbooks and several hundred scientific papers. Here, in his first novel, he tells the story of a first-class university, full of smart, competent people, where things can still go badly wrong.