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: The Best American series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780618082971; 9780618134786
Subjects: Science.; Nature.; Natural history.; Technical writing.
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 -- Dennis Overbye; 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.