The best American science and nature writing, 2002
By: edited and with an introduction by Natalie Angier ; Tim Folger, series editor.
Contributors: Angier, Natalie.; Folger, Tim.
Series: Best American series -- 2002
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Science.; Nature.; Natural history.; Technical writing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-309)

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Table of contents: title: Violent pride / Roy F. Baumeister; title: Braised shank of          free-range possum? / Burkhard Bilger; title: Mind over matter / K.C. Cole; title: In the realm of virtual reality / Richard Conniff and Harry Marshall; title: Saving us from Darwin / Frederick C. Crews; title: Welcome to cancerland / Barbara Ehrenreich; title: The most important fish in the sea / H. Bruce Franklin; title: Examined life / Malcolm Gladwell; title: As good as dead / Gary Greenberg; title: Is that a mountain lion in your backyard? / Gordon Grice; title: The dirt in the new machine / Blaine Harden; title: Life's rocky start / Robert M. Hazen.; title: Mothers and others / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy; title: Sound and fury / Garret Keizer; title: The pursuit of innocence in the golden state / Verlyn Klinkenborg; title: Ripe for controversy / Robert Kunzig; title: Wall Street losses, Wall Street gains / Anne Matthews; title: Dumb, dumb duh dumb / Steve Mirsky; title: "I have seen cancers disappear" / Judith Newman; title: How Islam won, and lost, the lead in science; title: A little reminder of reality's scale / Chet Raymo; title: Why McDonald's fries taste so good / Eric Schlosser; title: Shock and disbelief / Daniel Smith; title: The sting of the assassin / Peter Stark; title: The know-it-all machine / Clive Thompson; title: One acre / Joy Williams; title: Very dark energy / Karen Wright.