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Title:

The best American science and nature writing, 2003 / edited and with an introduction by Richard Dawkins ; Tim Folger, series editor.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xxiv, 324 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Science.
Nature.
Natural history.
Technical writing.

Other Authors:

Dawkins, Richard, 1941-
Folger, Tim.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-324).

Contents:

bottleneck Edward O. Wilson. At home in the heavens / Tim Appenzeller -- Four ears to the ground / Alan Burdick -- The skeptical look at September 11th / Clark R. Chapman and Alan W. Harris -- DNA as destiny / David Ewing Duncan -- Astronomy's new stars / Timothy Ferris -- Terminal ice / Ian Frazier -- Finding a wild, fearsome world beneath every fallen leaf / James Gorman -- My mother, the scientist / Charles Hirshberg -- Embryo police / Brendan I. Koerner -- Ice memory / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Treasure under Saddam's feet / Andrew Lawler -- False testament / Daniel Lazare -- Memory faults and fixes / Elizabeth F. Loftus -- Homeland insecurity / Charles C. Mann -- It's easy being green / Bill McKibben -- The royal we / Steve Olson -- A new view of our universe Dennis Overbye -- The blank slate / Steven Pinker -- Anybody out there? / Oliver Sacks -- The fully immersive mind of Oliver Sacks / Steve Silberman -- Fat heads sink ships / Adam Summers -- What if it's all been a big fat lie? / Gary Taubes -- Sounding the alarm / Bruce Watson -- The very best telescope / William Speed Weed -- Raising the dead Scott Weidensaul -- The truth about missile defense / Steven Weinberg -- Maine's war on coyotes / Ted Williams -- The bottleneck Edward O. Wilson.

Series:

The best American series

ISBN:

9780618178926 (pbk.)
0618178929 (pbk.)
9780618178919
0618178910

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53145789

Locations:

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)