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050 1 4 _aQ 162
_bB561 2009
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049 _aGRAL
245 0 4 _aThe best American science writing 2009 /
_ceditor, Natalie Angier ; series editor, Jesse Cohen.
260 _aNew York :
_bHarper Perennial,
_c2009.
300 _axv, 346 p. ;
_c21 cm.
490 1 _aBest American series
505 _aIntroduction / 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.
520 _aPresents 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.
650 0 _aTechnical writing.
650 0 _aScience.
650 0 _aScience
_xPopular works.
650 0 _aTechnical writing
_xPopular works.
650 4 _aCiencia
_vTerminología
_xInglés.
650 4 _aTecnología
_vTerminología
_xInglés.
700 1 _aAngier, Natalie.
700 1 _aCohen, Jesse B.
830 0 _aBest American series
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