The best American science writing 2003
By: editor, Oliver Sacks ; series editor, Jesse Cohen.
Contributors: Sacks, Oliver W.; Cohen, Jesse.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Best American Science Writing
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Science.; Technical writing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: label: Oliver Sacks
title: Introduction
pagenum: vii; label: Peter Canby
title: The Forest Primeval
pagenum: 1; label: Charles C. Mann
title: 1491
pagenum: 26; label: Atul Gawande
title: The Learning Curve
pagenum: 49; label: Liza Mundy
title: A World of Their Own
pagenum: 68; label: Floyd Skloot
title: The Melody Lingers On
pagenum: 88; label: Frank Wilczek
title: The World's Numerical Recipe
pagenum: 96; label: Marcelo Gleiser
title: Emergent Realities in the Cosmos
pagenum: 102; label: Natalie Angier
title: Scientists Reach Out to Distant Worlds
pagenum: 106; label: Margaret Wertheim
title: Here There Be Dragons
pagenum: 111; label: Jennifer Kahn
title: Notes from a Parallel Universe
pagenum: 115; label: Michelle Nijhuis
title: Shadow Creatures
pagenum: 123; label: Gunjan Sinha
title: You Dirty Vole
pagenum: 132; label: Trevor Corson
title: Stalking the American Lobster
pagenum: 138; label: Siddhartha Mukherjee
title: Fighting Chance
pagenum: 160; label: Michael Klesius
title: The Big Bloom
pagenum: 168; label: Susan Milius
title: Why Turn Red?
pagenum: 176; label: Thomas Eisner
title: The Mosquito's Buzz
pagenum: 182; label: Lawrence Osborne
title: Got Silk
pagenum: 186; label: Brendan I. Koerner
title: Disorders Made to Order
pagenum: 194; label: Joseph D'Agnese
title: An Embarrassment of Chimpanzees
pagenum: 204; label: Danielle Ofri
title: Common Ground
pagenum: 213; label: Roald Hoffmann
title: Why Buy That Theory?
pagenum: 222; label: Leonard Cassuto
title: Big Trouble in the World of "Big Physics"
pagenum: 228; label: Dennis Overbye
title: Hawking's Breakthrough Is Still an enigma
pagenum: 237; label: Richard C. Lewontin and Richard Levins
title: Stephen Jay Gould: What Does It Mean to Be a Radical?
pagenum: 243; title: About the Contributors
pagenum: 251