The best American science writing 2009 / 
editor, Natalie Angier ; series editor, Jesse Cohen. 
 - New York :  Harper Perennial,  2009. 
 - xv, 346 p. ;  21 cm. 
 - Best American series .
 - Best American series .
<br/><br/>Introduction / by Natalie Angier --  The itch / Atul Gawande --  Twitchy / Sallie Tisdale --  The first ache / Annie Murphy Paul --  A journey inside the brain / Oliver Sacks --  The truth about autism / David Wolman --  Blocking the transmission of violence / Alex Kotlowitz --  Reading the wounds / Jina Moore --  A cloud of smoke / Jennifer Kahn --  War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing / John Horgan --  Face-offs of the female kind / Marina Cords --  Tough lessons from golden rice / Martin Enserink --  Back to the future / J. Madeleine Nash --  A tall, cool drink of... sewage? / Elizabeth Royte --  Contagious cancer / David Quammen --  Looking up / Jennifer Margulis --  Birdbrain / Margaret Talbot --  Want to remember everything you'll ever learn? Surrender to this algorithm / Gary Wolf --  Hello, HAL / John Seabrook --  The anonymity experiment / Catherine Price --  The sky is falling / Gregg Easterbrook --  Big brain theory: have cosmologists lost theirs? / Dennis Overbye --  The final frontier / Karen Olsson --  Perhaps death is proud; more reason to savor life / Theresa Brown --  Evolutionists flock to Darwin-shaped wall stain / The Onion. 
<br/><br/> Presents essays on animals, the universe, physics, flowers, and other topics by contributors including David Wolman, Oliver Sacks, Jennifer Kahn, Margaret Talbot, Gary Wolf, John Seabrook, Gregg Easterbrook, Dennis Overbye. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780061431661 0061431664 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Technical writing.<br/>Science.<br/>Science--Popular works.<br/>Technical writing--Popular works.<br/>Ciencia--Inglés.--Terminología<br/>Tecnología--Inglés.--Terminología
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q 162  / B561 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>500