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Best American Science Writing 2003 ed. [Hardback]

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(University of Manchester)
  • Format: Hardback, 272 pages, height x width x depth: 229x152x25 mm, weight: 519 g
  • Series: Best American Science Writing
  • Pub. Date: 02-Sep-2003
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • ISBN-10: 0066211638
  • ISBN-13: 9780066211633
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  • Format: Hardback, 272 pages, height x width x depth: 229x152x25 mm, weight: 519 g
  • Series: Best American Science Writing
  • Pub. Date: 02-Sep-2003
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • ISBN-10: 0066211638
  • ISBN-13: 9780066211633
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Collects top articles from numerous publications to cover the full range of scientific inquiry, including biochemistry, physics, astronomy, genetics, evolutionary theory, and cognition to represent the year's most significant scientific developments.Presents essays on animals, the universe, physics, flowers, and other topics by contributors including Peter Canby, Natalie Angier, Michael Klesius, and Joseph D'Agnese.
Introduction by Oliver Sacks vii
PETER CANBY
The Forest Primeval
1(25)
CHARLES C. MANN
1491
26(23)
ATUL GAWANDE
The Learning Curve
49(19)
LIZA MUNDY
A World of Their Own
68(20)
FLOYD SKLOOT
The Melody Lingers On
88(8)
FRANK WILCZEK
The World's Numerical Recipe
96(6)
MARCELO GLEISER
Emergent Realities in the Cosmos
102(4)
NATALIE ANGIER
Scientists Reach Out to Distant Worlds
106(5)
MARGARET WERTHEIM
Here There Be Dragons
111(4)
JENNIFER KAHN
Notes from a Parallel Universe
115(8)
MICHELLE NIJHUIS
Shadow Creatures
123(9)
GUNJAN SINHA
You Dirty Vole
132(6)
TREVOR CORSON
Stalking the American Lobster
138(22)
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE
Fighting Chance
160(8)
MICHAEL KLESIUS
The Big Bloom
168(8)
SUSAN MILIUS
Why Turn Red?
176(6)
THOMAS EISNER
The Mosquito's Buzz
182(4)
LAWRENCE OSBORNE
I Got Silk
186(8)
BRENDAN I. KOERNER
Disorders Made to Order
194(10)
JOSEPH D. AGNESE
An Embarrassment of Chimpanzees
204(9)
DANIELLE OFRI
Common Ground
213(9)
ROALD HOFFMANN
Why Buy That Theory?
222(6)
LEONARD CASSUTO
Big Trouble in the World of "Big Physics"
228(9)
DENNIS OVERBYE
Hawking's Breakthrough Is Still an Enigma
237(6)
RICHARD C. LEWONTIN AND RICHARD LEVINS
Stephen Jay Gould: What Does It Mean to Be a Radical?
243(8)
About the Contributors 251