The Best American Science Writing 2005
Series: Best American Science Writing
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: September 6, 2005
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780060726423
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Science/Mathematics; Science (General); Science; American - General; Essays; Science / General; General
Table of contents: label: Alan Lightman
title: Introduction
pagenum: ix; label: Oliver Sacks
title: Greetings from the Island of Stability
pagenum: 1; label: James Gleick
title: Isaac Newton's Gravity
pagenum: 6; label: Frank Wilczek
title: Whence the Force of F = ma?
pagenum: 11; label: Peter Galison
title: Einstein's Compass
pagenum: 17; label: William J. Broad
title: Will Compasses Point South?
pagenum: 23; label: K. C. Cole
title: Seeking Life as We Know It
pagenum: 29; label: Dennis Overbye
title: All of a Sudden, the Neighborhood Looks a Lot Friendlier
pagenum: 37; label: Jim Hour
title: How Will the Universe End?
pagenum: 43; label: Natalie Angier
title: Scientist at Work: Jacqueline Barton
pagenum: 58; label: Jennifer Couzin
title: Aging Research's Family Feud
pagenum: 64; label: Robin Marantz Henig
title: The Genome in Black and White (and Gray)
pagenum: 76; label: Mark Dowie
title: Gods and Monsters
pagenum: 90; label: Gina Kolata
title: Stem Cell Science Gets the Limelight; Now It Needs a Cure
pagenum: 103; label: Philip Alcares
title: The Bioterrorism Scare
pagenum: 109; label: Laurie Garrett
title: The Hidden Dragon
pagenum: 124; label: Atul Gawande
title: The Mop-Up
pagenum: 137; label: Jerome Groopman
title: The Biology of Hope
pagenum: 154; label: Ben Harder
title: Creepy-Crawly Care
pagenum: 166; label: Jennifer Ackerman
title: Cranes
pagenum: 172; label: Edward Hoagland
title: Small Silences
pagenum: 177; label: David Quammen
title: Darwin or Not
pagenum: 205; label: David Berlinski
title: On the Origins of the Mind
pagenum: 222; label: Mark Solms
title: Freud Returns
pagenum: 244; label: Ellen Ullman
title: Dining with Robots
pagenum: 254; label: Andrea Barrett
title: The Sea of Information
pagenum: 266; label: Diane Ackerman
title: Even Bees Must Rest Their Heads
pagenum: 280; title: About the Contributors
pagenum: 283