The Best American Science Writing 2001
By: editor, Timothy Ferris.
Contributors: Ferris, Timothy.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Best American Science Writing
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Science
Table of contents: label: Timothy Ferris
title: Introduction
pagenum: vii; label: John Updike
title: Transparent Stratagems
pagenum: 1; label: Michael S. Turner
title: More Than Meets the Eye
pagenum: 3; label: Natalie Angier
title: In Mandrill Society, Life Is a Girl Thing
pagenum: 13; label: Joel Achenbach
title: Life Beyond Earth
pagenum: 19; label: Erik Asphaug
title: The Small Planets
pagenum: 32; label: John Archibald Wheeler
title: How Come the Quantum?
pagenum: 41; label: Stephen S. Hall
title: The Recycled Generation
pagenum: 44; label: Richard Preston
title: The Genome Warrior
pagenum: 61; label: Peter J. Boyer
title: DNA on Trial
pagenum: 90; label: John Terborgh
title: In the Company of Humans
pagenum: 112; label: James Schwartz
title: Death of an Altruist
pagenum: 120; label: Ernst Mayr
title: Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought
pagenum: 134; label: Greg Critser
title: Let Them Eat Fat
pagenum: 143; label: Andrew Sullivan
title: The He Hormone
pagenum: 154; label: Malcolm Gladwell
title: John Rock's Error
pagenum: 171; label: Helen Epstein
title: The Mystery of AIDS in South Africa
pagenum: 187; label: Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher
title: The Virus and the Vaccine
pagenum: 212; label: Stephen Jay Gould
title: Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis
pagenum: 232; label: Tracy Kidder
title: The Good Doctor
pagenum: 247; label: Jacques Leslie
title: Running Dry
pagenum: 275; label: Robert L. Park
title: Welcome to Planet Earth
pagenum: 302; label: Alan Lightman
title: A Portrait of the Novelist as a Young Scientist
pagenum: 310; label: Freeman J. Dyson
title: Science, Guided by Ethics, Can Lift Up the Poor
pagenum: 313; title: About the Contributors
pagenum: 317