Best American Science Writing 2006

Name: Best American Science Writing 2006
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ISBN: 9780060726447

ISBN-10: 006072644X

ISBN-13: 9780060726447

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Authors: Atul Gawande, Jesse Cohen

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Together these twenty-one articles on a wide range of today's most leading topics in science, from Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Weiner, and Richard Preston, among others, represent the full spectrum of scientific inquiry, proving once again that "good science writing is evidently plentiful" (American Scientist).

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Atul Gawande is a surgical resident in Boston and staff writer on medicine and science for The New Yorker. A former Rhodes scholar, he received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He lives with his wife and three children in Newton, Massachusetts.



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