The Best American Science Writing 2004
Series: Best American Science Writing
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: September 14, 2004
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780060726393
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Technical Writing; Science; Science/Mathematics; United States; Essays; Study & Teaching; Science / General; Popular works; General
First sentence: The television in the dead man's room stays on all night.
Table of contents: label: Dava Sobel
title: Introduction
pagenum: vii; label: Jennifer Kahn
title: Stripped for Parts
pagenum: 1; label: Atul Gawande
title: Desperate Measures
pagenum: 8; label: John Updike
title: Mars as Bright as Venus
pagenum: 29; label: K. C. Cole
title: Fun with Physics
pagenum: 30; label: Oliver Morton
title: Strange Nuggets
pagenum: 42; label: Keay Davidson
title: Mapping of Cosmos Backs Big Bang Theory
pagenum: 50; label: Neil Degrasse Tyson
title: Gravity in Reverse
pagenum: 53; label: Dennis Overbye
title: One Cosmic Question, Too Many Answers
pagenum: 61; label: Sherwin B. Nuland
title: How to Grow Old
pagenum: 69; label: Aaron E. Hirsh
title: Signs of Life
pagenum: 79; label: Ian Parker
title: Reading Minds
pagenum: 89; label: Tom Siegfried
title: The Science of Strategy
pagenum: 109; label: Kaja Perina
title: Cracking the Harvard X-Files
pagenum: 115; label: John Noble Wilford
title: A Tense Border's More Peaceful Past
pagenum: 124; label: Tom Bissell
title: A Comet's Tale: On the Science of Apocalypse
pagenum: 129; label: Elizabeth Royte
title: Transsexual Frogs
pagenum: 155; label: Susan Milius
title: Leashing the Rattlesnake
pagenum: 164; label: Michael Benson
title: What Galileo Saw
pagenum: 171; label: Barbara J. Becker
title: Celestial Spectroscopy: Making Reality Fit the Myth
pagenum: 182; label: Kevin Patterson
title: The Patient Predator
pagenum: 188; label: Michael Pollan
title: Cruising on the Ark of Taste
pagenum: 201; label: William Langewiesche
title: Columbia's Last Flight
pagenum: 207; label: Diane Ackerman
title: We Are All a Part of Nature
pagenum: 251; title: About the Contributors
pagenum: 255; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 269