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The Best American Science Writing 2009

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and bestselling author Natalie Angier, The Best American Science Writing 2009 collects into one volume the premier science writing of the year. (more)

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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With a title inspired as much by Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series as Einstein, The Theory of Everything delivers almost as much as it promises. Transcribed from Stephen Hawking's Cambridge Lectures, the (more)

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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If author Mary Roach was a college professor, she'd have a zero drop-out rate. That's because when Roach tackles a subject--like the posthumous human body in her previous bestseller, Stiff: The Curious (more)

Thu, 23 Feb 1978 00:00:00 GMT

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Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To (more)

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long (more)

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As a poet, novelist, and farmer, Wendell Berry has worked and written in favor of tried and tested ways, rejecting the notion that the modern is always to be preferred over the old. Technology may have (more)

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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Amazon Exclusive: Henry Petroski on Science, Engineering, and Culture Science is by its very nature global. In fact, it is galactic, even universal. This is because science (more)