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The Best of the Best of American Science Writing (Best American Science Writing)
The Best of the Best of American Science Writing - Best American Science Writing Author:Jesse Cohen (Editor) For a decade, Ecco has published the most outstanding science writing in America, collected in highly acclaimed annual volumes edited by some of the most impressive and most important names in science and science writing today: James Gleick, Timothy Ferris, Matt Ridley, Oliver Sacks, Dava Sobel, Alan Lightman, Atul Gawande, Gina Kolata, Sylvia N... more »asar, and Natalie Angier.
Now series editor Jesse Cohen invites the previous guest editors to select their favorite essays for this one-of-a-kind anthology. The result is an outstanding compendium -- the best science writing of the new millennium, featuring an introduction by the series' 2010 editor and New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman.
2000. When doctors make mistakes / Atul Gawande --
The Biotech death of Jesse Gelsinger / Sheryl Gay Stolberg --
2001. Science, guided by ethics, can lift up the poor / Freeman J. Dyson --
Darwin's influence on modern thought / Ernst Mayr --
2002. Dr. Daedalus / Lauren Slater --
The Soft science of dietary fat / Gary Taubes --
2003. Common ground / Danielle Ofri --
The Melody lingers on / Floyd Skloot --
2004. What Galileo saw / Michael Benson --
Columbia's last flight / William Langewiesche --
2005. The Genome in black and white (and gray) / Robin Marantz Henig --
Darwin or not / David Quammen --
2006. Mighty white of you / Jack Hitt --
Your move / Tom Mueller --
2007. The Man on the table was 97, but he devised the surgery / Lawrence K. Altman --
Truth and consequences / Jennifer Couzin-Frankel --