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Title:

The best American science writing 2006 / editor, Atul Gawande ; series editor, Jesse Cohen.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Harper Perennial,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xi, 362 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Science.
Technical writing.

Other Authors:

Gawande, Atul.
Cohen, Jesse.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [363-365]).

Contents:

We're all Machiavellians / Frans B. M. De Waal. My bionic quest for Boléro / Michael Chorost -- Earth without people / Alan Weisman -- Curse of Akkad / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Remembrance of things future: the mystery of time / Dennis Overbye -- Obesity: an overblown epidemic? / W. Wayt Gibbs -- Natures's bioterrorist / Michael Specter -- On autism's cause, it's parents vs. research / Gardiner Harris and Anahad O'Connor -- What makes people gay? / Neil Swidey -- Tangle / Jonathan Weiner -- Clone your troubles away / David Quammen -- Coming death shortage / Charles C. Mann -- Devolution / H. Allen Orr -- Literary Darwinists / D.T. Max -- Day everything died / Karen Wright -- Mighty white of you / Jack Hitt -- Is God an accident? / Paul Bloom -- Yawning / Robert R. Provine -- Ten planets? Why not eleven? / Kenneth Chang -- Climbing the redwoods / Richard Preston -- We're all Machiavellians / Frans B. M. De Waal.

ISBN:

9780060726447
9780060726447 (pbk.) :
006072644X (pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)71323530

Locations:

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)