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The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Best American Science & Nature Writing)by Natalie Angier
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected — and most popular — of its kind. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002, edited by Natalie Angier, is another "eclectic, provocative collection" (Entertainment Weekly). Malcolm Gladwell, Joy Williams, Barbara Ehrenreich, Burkhard Bilger, Dennis Overbye, and many more of the best and brightest writers on science and nature explore such topics as the rise and fall of Islamic science, disappearing cancers, and the meaning of mountain lions in the back yard. Review:'\"Eloquent, accessible and often illuminating anthology\"' Synopsis:Also an instant bestseller in the Best American series, this annual volume, edited by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Angier, promises to be another Reclectic, provocative collectionS ("Entertainment Weekly") that is both a science reader's dream and a nature lover's sustenance. Synopsis:Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-309).
About the Author'NATALIE ANGIER writes about biology for the New York Times, whereshe has won a Pulitzer Prize, the American Association for the Advancement of Science journalism award, and other honors. She is the author of The Beauty of the Beastly, Natural Obsessions, and Woman, named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, People, National Public Radio, Village Voice, and Publishers Weekly, among others.A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist, Woman is \"a text so necessary and abundant and true that all efforts of its kind, for decades before and after it, will be measured by it\"(Los Angeles Times Book Review). Angier lives with her husband and daughter outside of Washington, D.C.Tim Folger has been an editor and reporter for Discover and Science Digest.' Table of ContentsViolent pride / Roy F. Baumeister — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — Little reminder of reality's scale / Chet Raymo — Why McDonald's fries taste so good / Eric Schlosser — Shock and disbelief / Daniel Smith — Sting of the assassin / Peter Stark — Know-it-all machine / Clive Thompson — One acre / Joy Williams — Very dark energy / Karen Wright.
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