The best American science and nature writing 2011

ISBN: 9780547350639 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0547350635 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xx, 361 p. ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

Book

The best American science and nature writing 2011 / edited and with an introduction by Mary Roach ; Tim Folger, series editor.

Roach, Mary. (Editor). Folger, Tim. (Editor).

Summary:

Presents a collection of the year's best essays written by American authors that discuss topics in science and nature.

General Note:: "A Mariner original."
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (p. [358]-361).
Formatted Contents Note:: The organ dealer / Yudhijit Bhattacharjee -- Nature's spoils / Burkhard Bilger -- The chemist's war / Deborah Blum -- Fertility rites / Jon Cohen -- The brain that changed everything / Luke Dittrich -- Emptying the skies / Jonathan Franzen -- Fish out of water / Ian Frazier -- Lies, damned lies, and medical science / David H. Freedman -- Letting go / Atul Gawande -- The treatment / Malcolm Gladwell -- Cosmic blueprint of life / Andrew Grant -- The (elusive) theory of everything / Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow -- Spectral light / Amy Irvine -- The spill seekers / Rowan Jacobsen -- New dog in town / Christopher Ketcham -- Taking a fall / Dan Koeppel -- The first church of robotics / Jaron Lanier -- The love that dare not squawk its name / Jon Mooallem -- Could time end? / George Musser -- Sign here if you exist / Jill Sisson Quinn -- Face-blind / Oliver Sacks -- Waste MGMT / Evan I. Schwartz -- The whole fracking enchilada / Sandra Steingraber -- The new king of the sea / Abigail Tucker -- The killer in the pool / Tim Zimmermann.