Description |
xxii, 290 pages ; 21 cm. |
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Best American series |
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Best American series.
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Contents |
Foreword -- Introduction by Brian Greene -- Almost before we spoke, we swore / Natalie Angier -- Dr. Ecstasy / Drake Bennett -- His brain, her brain / Larry Cahill -- My bionic quest for Bolero / Michael Chorost -- Show me the science / Daniel C. Dennett -- How animals do business / Frans B.M.De Waal -- Buried answers / David Dobbs -- Conservation refugees / Mark Dowie -- The blogs of war / John Hockenberry -- The forgotten era of brain chips / John Horgan -- The mysteries of mass / Gordon Kane -- Future shocks / Kevin Krajick -- The mummy doctor / Kevin Krajick -- X-ray vision / Robert Kunzig -- The illusion of gravity / Juan Maldacena -- The coming death shortage / Charles C. Mann -- The Dover monkey trial / Chris Mooney -- Remembrance of things future / Dennis Overbye -- Out of time / Paul Raffaele -- Torrential reign / Daniel Roth -- Are antibiotics killing us? / Jessica Snyder Sachs -- Remembering Francis Crick / Oliver Sacks -- Buried suns / David Samuels -- Lights, camera, Armageddon / Josh Schollmeyer -- Taming lupus / Moncef Zouali -- Contributors' notes -- Other notable science and nature writing of 2005. |
Subject |
Nature.
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Science.
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Natural history.
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Technical writing.
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Added Author |
Greene, Brian, 1963-
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Folger, Tim.
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ISBN |
061872222X paperback $14.00 |
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9780618722228 paperback $14.00 |
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