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The best American science writing, 2007 / editor, Gina Kolata ; series editor, Jesse Cohen.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Harper Perennial, c2007.Description: xiii, 333 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780061345777 (pbk.)
  • 0061345776 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • Q162 .B47 2007
Contents:
Introduction / by Gina Kolata -- The theory of everything / Tyler Cabot -- Manifold destiny / Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber -- Looking for the lie / Robin Marantz Henig -- Face blind / Joshua Davis -- Stereo Sue / Oliver Sacks -- Probing a mind for a cure / Stacey Burling -- A depression switch? / David Dobbs -- With lasers and daring, doctors race to save a young man's brain / Denise Grady -- Being there / Jerome Groopman -- God or gorilla / Matthew Chapman -- The score / Atul Gawande -- Truth and consequences / Jennifer Couzin -- The man on the table was 97, but he devised the surgery / Lawrence K. Altman -- Butterfly lessons / Elizabeth Kolbert -- In ancient fossils, seeds of a new debate on warming / William J. Broad -- John Koza has built an invention machine / Jonathon Keats -- Mind games / John Cassidy -- Schweitzer's dangerous discovery / Barry Yeoman -- Cooking for eggheads / Patricia Gadsby -- Hollywood's science guru / Gregory Mone.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks Q162 .B47 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001003739

"An Ecco book."

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / by Gina Kolata -- The theory of everything / Tyler Cabot -- Manifold destiny / Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber -- Looking for the lie / Robin Marantz Henig -- Face blind / Joshua Davis -- Stereo Sue / Oliver Sacks -- Probing a mind for a cure / Stacey Burling -- A depression switch? / David Dobbs -- With lasers and daring, doctors race to save a young man's brain / Denise Grady -- Being there / Jerome Groopman -- God or gorilla / Matthew Chapman -- The score / Atul Gawande -- Truth and consequences / Jennifer Couzin -- The man on the table was 97, but he devised the surgery / Lawrence K. Altman -- Butterfly lessons / Elizabeth Kolbert -- In ancient fossils, seeds of a new debate on warming / William J. Broad -- John Koza has built an invention machine / Jonathon Keats -- Mind games / John Cassidy -- Schweitzer's dangerous discovery / Barry Yeoman -- Cooking for eggheads / Patricia Gadsby -- Hollywood's science guru / Gregory Mone.

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