Best of the Best of American Science Writing

Name: Best of the Best of American Science Writing
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ISBN: 9780061875007

ISBN-10: 0061875007

ISBN-13: 9780061875007

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jesse Cohen

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For a decade, Ecco has published the most outstanding science writing in America, collected in highly acclaimed annual volumes edited by some of the most impressive and most important names in science and science writing today: James Gleick, Timothy Ferris, Matt Ridley, Oliver Sacks, Dava Sobel, Alan Lightman, Atul Gawande, Gina Kolata, Sylvia Nasar, and Natalie Angier.Now series editor Jesse Cohen invites the previous guest editors to select their favorite essays for this one-of-a-kind anthology. The result is an outstanding compendium-the best science writing of the new millennium, featuring an introduction by the series' 2010 editor and New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/6/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction



2000



When Doctors Make Mistakes



The Biotech Death of Jesse Gelsinger



2001



Science, Guided by Ethics, Can Lift Up the Poor



Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought



2002



Lauren Slater



The Soft Science of Dietary Fat



2003



Common Ground



The Melody Lingers On



2004



What Galileo Saw



Columbia's Last Flight



2005



The Genome in Black and White (aid Gray)



Darwin or Not



2006



Mighty White of You



Your Move



2007



The Man on the Table Was 97, But He Devised the Surgery



Truth and Consequences



2008



What's Normal?



Facing Life with a Lethal Gene



2009



The Final Frontier



Birdbrain



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