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The best American science and nature writing 2011 / edited and with an introduction by Mary Roach ; Tim Folger, series editor.
Presents a collection of the year's best essays written by American authors that discuss topics in science and nature.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780547350639 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0547350635 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xx, 361 p. ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Content descriptions
- 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.
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