The Best American Science Writing 2010
Series: Best American Science Writing
Publisher: Ecco Press; Ecco
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780061852510
Copyright date: 2010
Table of contents: label: Jerome Groopman
title: Introduction
pagenum: vii; label: Larissa MacFarquhar
title: The Kindest Cut
pagenum: 1; label: Steve Silberman
title: The Placebo Problem
pagenum: 31; label: Benedict Carey
title: Surgery for Mental Ills Offers Both Hope and Risk
pagenum: 45; label: Jonah Lehrer
title: The Truth About Grit
pagenum: 52; label: Daniel M. Wegner
title: How to Think, Say, or Do Precisely the Worst Thing for Any Occasion
pagenum: 59; label: Jennifer Couzin-Frankel
title: Friendship as a Health Factor
pagenum: 71; label: Micheal Specter
title: A Life of Its Own
pagenum: 80; label: David Dobbs
title: The Orchid Children
pagenum: 102; label: Steven Pinker
title: My Genome, My Self
pagenum: 124; label: Pam Belluck
title: Test Subjects Who Call the Scientist Mom or Dad
pagenum: 147; label: Erik Stokstad
title: The Famine Fighter's Last Battle
pagenum: 153; label: Julia Scott
title: Pesticides Indicted in Bee Deaths
pagenum: 161; label: Rivka Galchen
title: Disaster Aversion
pagenum: 167; label: Elizabeth Kolbert
title: The Sixth Extinction?
pagenum: 190; label: Kathleen McAuliffe
title: Are We Still Evolving?
pagenum: 218; label: Susan Milius
title: A Most Private Evolution
pagenum: 232; label: Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum
title: Unpopular Science
pagenum: 243; label: Amy Wallace
title: An Epidemic of Fear
pagenum: 252; label: Steven Weinberg
title: The Missions of Astronomy
pagenum: 272; label: Tony Freeth
title: Decoding an Ancient Computer
pagenum: 282; label: Sheri Fink
title: The Deadly Choices at Memorial
pagenum: 293; label: Cornelia Dean
title: So Much to Learn About the Oceans from Sand
pagenum: 330; title: About the Contributors
pagenum: 335