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The best American science writing, 2010
- Title
- The best American science writing, 2010 / editor, Jerome Groopman ; series editor, Jesse Cohen.
- Publication
- New York : Ecco, c2010.
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- Description
- xv, 346 p.; 21 cm.
- Subjects
- Contents
- Introduction / Jerome Groopman -- The kindest cut / Larissa MacFarquhar -- The placebo problem / Steve Silberman -- Surgery for mental ills offers both hope and risk / Benedict Carey -- The truth about grit / Jonah Lehrer -- How to think, say, or do precisely the worst thing for any occasion / Daniel M. Wegner -- Friendship as a health factor / Jennifer Couzin-Frankel -- A life of its own / Michael Specter -- The orchid children / David Dobbs -- My genome, my self / Steven Pinker -- Test subjects who call the scientist Mom or Dad / Pam Belluck -- The famine fighter's last battle / Erik Stokstad -- Pesticides indicted in bee deaths / Julia Scott -- Disaster aversion / Rivka Galchen -- The sixth extinction? / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Are we still evolving? / Kathleen McAuliffe -- A most private evolution / Susan Milius -- Unpopular science / Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum -- An epidemic of fear / Amy Wallace -- The missions of astronomy / Steven Weinberg -- Decoding an ancient computer / Tony Freeth -- The deadly choices at Memorial / Sheri Fink -- So much to learn about the oceans from sand / Cornelia Dean.
- Call Number
- JSD 16-162
- ISBN
- 9780061852510 (pbk.)
- 0061852511 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 526068998
- Title
- The best American science writing, 2010 / editor, Jerome Groopman ; series editor, Jesse Cohen.
- Imprint
- New York : Ecco, c2010.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Added Author
- Groopman, Jerome E.Cohen, Jesse.
- Research Call Number
- JSD 16-162