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090 $aQ1$b.B47 2003
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245 04 $aThe best American science and nature writing, 2003 /$cedited and with an introduction by Richard Dawkins ; Tim Folger, series editor.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin Co.,$cc2003.
300 $axxiv, 324 p. ;$c22 cm.
440 4 $aThe Best American series
505 0 $aWeighing the Grandma factor / Natalie Angier -- At home in the heavens / Tim Appenzeller -- Four ears to the ground / Alan Burdick -- A skeptical look at September 11th / Clark R. Chapman and Alan W. Harris -- DNA as destiny / David Ewing Duncan -- Astronomy's new stars / Timothy Ferris -- Terminal ice / Ian Frazier -- Finding a wild, fearsome world beneath every fallen leaf / James Gorman -- My mother, the scientist / Charles Hirshberg -- Embryo police / Brendan I. Koerner -- Ice memory / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Treasure under Saddam's feet / Andrew Lawler -- False testament / Daniel Lazare -- Memory faults and fixes / Elizabeth F. Loftus -- Homeland insecurity / Charles C. Mann -- It's easy being green / Bill McKibben -- The royal we / Steve Olson -- A new view of our universe / Dennis Overbye -- The blank slate / Steven Pinker -- Anybody out there? / Oliver Sacks -- The fully immersive mind of Oliver Sacks / Steve Silberman -- Fat heads sink ships / Adam Summers -- What if it's all been a big fat lie? / Gary Taubes -- Sounding the alarm / Bruce Watson -- The very best telescope / William Speed Weed -- Raising the dead / Scott Weidensaul -- The truth about missile defense / Steven Weinberg -- Maine's war on coyotes / Ted Williams -- The bottleneck / Edward O. Wilson.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [321]-324).
650 0 $aScience.
650 0 $aNature.
650 0 $aNatural history.
650 0 $aTechnical writing.
700 1 $aDawkins, Richard,$d1941-
700 1 $aFolger, Tim.
994 $aE0$bXIM