| Description |
xxiv, 309 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The best American series |
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Best American series.
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| Contents |
Violent pride / Roy F. Baumeister -- Braised shank of free-range possum? / Burkhard Bilger -- Mind over matter / K.C. Cole -- In the realm of virtual reality / Richard Conniff and Harry Marshall -- Saving us from Darwin / Frederick C. Crews -- Welcome to cancerland / Barbara Ehrenreich -- The most important fish in the sea / H. Bruce Franklin -- Examined life / Malcolm Gladwell -- As good as dead / Gary Greenberg -- Is that a mountain lion in your backyard? / Gordon Grice -- The dirt in the new machine / Blaine Harden -- Life's rocky start / Robert M. Hazen -- Mothers and others / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy -- Sound and fury / Garret Keizer -- The pursuit of innocence in the golden state / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- Ripe for controversy / Robert Kunzig -- Wall Street losses, Wall Street gains / Anne Matthews -- Dumb, dumb duh dumb / Steve Mirsky -- "I have seen cancers disappear" / Judith Newman -- How Islam won, and lost, the lead in science / Dennis Overbye -- A little reminder of reality's scale / Chet Raymo -- Why McDonald's fries taste so good / Eric Schlosser -- Shock and disbelief / Daniel Smith -- The sting of the assassin / Peter Stark -- The know-it-all machine / Clive Thompson -- One acre / Joy Williams -- Very dark energy / Karen Wright. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-309). |
| Subject |
Science.
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Nature.
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Natural history.
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Technical writing.
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| Added Author |
Angier, Natalie.
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Folger, Tim.
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| ISBN |
0618134786 paperback $13.00 |
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0618082972 |
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