Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006

Name: Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006
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ISBN: 9780618722228

ISBN-10: 061872222X

ISBN-13: 9780618722228

Edition: 2006

Authors: Tim Folger, Tim Folger

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In his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006, Brian Greene writes that "science needs to be recognized for what it is: the ultimate in adventure stories." The twenty-five pieces in this year's collection take you on just such an adventure. Natalie Angier probes the origins of language, Paul Raffaele describes a remote Amazonian tribe untouched by the modern world, and Frans B. M. de Waal explains what a new breed of economists is learning from monkeys. Drake Bennett profiles the creator of Ecstasy and more than two hundred other psychedelic compounds -- a man hailed by some as one of the twentieth century's most important scientists. Some of the selections…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/11/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

TIM FOLGER is a contributing editor at Discover and writes about science for several magazines.



Foreword


Introduction



Natalie Angier


Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore


The New York Times



Dr. Ecstasy


The New York Times Magazine



His Brain, Her Brain


Scientific American



My Bionic Quest for Bolï¿½ro


Wired



Show Me the Science


The New York Times



How Animals Do Business


Scientific American



Buried Answers


The New York Times Magazine



Conservation Refugees


Orion



The Blogs of War


Wired



The Forgotten Era of Brain Chips


Scientific American



The Mysteries of Mass


Scientific American



Future Shocks


Smithsonian



The Mummy Doctor


The New Yorker



X-Ray Vision


Discover



The Illusion of Gravity


Scientific American



The Coming Death Shortage


The Atlantic Monthly



The Dover Monkey Trial


Seed



Remembrance of Things Future


The New York Times



Out of Time


Smithsonian



Torrential Reign


Fortune



Are Antibiotics Killing Us?


Discover



Remembering Francis Crick


The New York Review of Books



Buried Suns


Harper"s Magazine



Lights, Camera, Armageddon


Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists



Taming Lupus


Scientific American


Contributors" Notes


Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2005