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324

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Cover of: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 (The Best American Series)
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 (The Best American Series)
October 10, 2003, Houghton Mifflin
in English
Cover of: The best American science and nature writing, 2003
The best American science and nature writing, 2003
2003, Houghton Mifflin Co.
in English
Cover of: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 (The Best American Series (TM))
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 (The Best American Series (TM))
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Table of Contents

Weighing 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-324).

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Boston
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The Best American series

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Pagination
xxiv, 324 p. ;
Number of pages
324

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Open Library
OL22373480M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0618178910, 0618178929
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8104350
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