The best American science and nature writing, 2003
By: edited and with an introduction by Richard Dawkins ; Tim Folger, series editor.
Contributors: Dawkins, Richard, 1941-; Folger, Tim.
Series: The Best American series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Science.; Nature.; Natural history.; Technical writing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-324).
Table of contents: title: Weighing the Grandma factor / Natalie Angier; title: At home in the heavens / Tim Appenzeller; title: Four ears to the ground / Alan Burdick; title: A skeptical look at September 11th / Clark R. Chapman and Alan W. Harris; title: DNA as destiny / David Ewing Duncan; title: Astronomy's new stars / Timothy Ferris; title: Terminal ice / Ian Frazier; title: Finding a wild, fearsome world beneath every fallen leaf / James Gorman; title: My mother, the scientist / Charles Hirshberg; title: Embryo police / Brendan I. Koerner; title: Ice memory / Elizabeth Kolbert; title: Treasure under Saddam's feet / Andrew Lawler; title: False testament / Daniel Lazare; title: Memory faults and fixes / Elizabeth F. Loftus; title: Homeland insecurity / Charles C. Mann; title: It's easy being green / Bill McKibben; title: The royal we / Steve Olson; title: A new view of our universe / Dennis Overbye; title: The blank slate / Steven Pinker; title: Anybody out there? / Oliver Sacks; title: The fully immersive mind of Oliver Sacks / Steve Silberman; title: Fat heads sink ships / Adam Summers; title: What if it's all been a big fat lie? / Gary Taubes; title: Sounding the alarm / Bruce Watson; title: The very best telescope / William Speed Weed; title: Raising the dead / Scott Weidensaul; title: The truth about missile defense / Steven Weinberg; title: Maine's war on coyotes / Ted Williams; title: The bottleneck / Edward O. Wilson.