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Title:
The Best American science and nature writing, 2002 / edited and with an introduction by Natalie Angier ; Tim Folger, series editor.
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Copyright Date:
2002
Description:
xxiv, 309 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Science.
Nature.
Natural history.
Other Authors:
Angier, Natalie.
Folger, Tim.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-309).
Contents:
Very dark energy / Karen Wright. Braised shank of free-range possum? / Burkhard Bilger -- Mind over matter / K.C. Cole -- In the realm of virtual reality / Richard Conniff and Harry Marshall -- Saving us from Darwin / Frederick C. Crews -- Welcome to cancerland / Barbara Ehrenreich -- The most important fish in the sea / H. Bruce Franklin -- Examined life / Malcolm Gladwell -- As good as dead / Gary Greenberg -- Is that a mountain lion in your backyard? / Gordon Grice -- The dirt in the new machine / Blaine Harden -- Life's rocky start / Robert M. Hazen -- Mothers and others / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy -- Sound and fury / Garret Keizer -- The pursuit of innocence in the golden state / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- Ripe for controversy / Robert Kunzig -- Wall Street losses, Wall Street gains / Anne Matthews -- Dumb, dumb duh dumb / Steve Mirsky -- "I have seen cancers disappear" / Judith Newman -- How Islam won, and lost, the lead in science / Dennis Overbye -- A little reminder of reality's scale / Chet Raymo -- Why McDonald's fries taste so good / Eric Schlosser -- Shock and disbelief / Daniel Smith -- The sting of the assassin / Peter Stark -- The know-it-all machine / Clive Thompson -- One acre / Joy Williams -- Very dark energy / Karen Wright.
Series:
The best American series
ISBN:
9780618082971
0618082972
OCLC:
(OCoLC)50698979
Locations:
PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

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