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Ecco Press, Ecco
Language
English
Pages
304

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Technical writing, Science, American essays
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Table of Contents

Michio Kaku. Introduction
Page vii
Gretchen Vogel. Mending the Youngest Hearts
Page 1
Denise Grady. An Immune System Trained to Kill Cancer
Page 7
Kristina Rebelo and Walt Bogdanich. X-Rays and Unshielded Infants
Page 16
Jennifer Couzin-Frankel. Aging Genes
Page 24
Evan Ratliff. Taming the Wild
Page 38
David Dobbs. Beautiful Brains
Page 52
Josh Fischman. Criminal Minds
Page 65
Douglas Fox. The Limits of Intelligence
Page 76
Jaron Lanier. It's Not a Game
Page 89
Rivka Galchen. Dream Machine
Page 94
Linda Marsa. Going to Extremes
Page 116
Jeff Goodell. The Fire Next Time
Page 125
P. J. O'Rourke. The Last Shuttle Launch
Page 134
Erik Sofge. The Early Adopter's Guide to Space Travel
Page 139
Charles Petit. Stellar Oddballs
Page 149
Steven Weinberg. Symmetry: A "Key to Nature's Secrets"
Page 158
Tim Folger. Waiting for the Higgs
Page 173
Devin Powell. Moved by Light
Page 181
Alan Lightman. The Accidental Universe
Page 189
Charles C. Mann. The Birth of Religion
Page 202
Jackson Leaks. Same Old New Atheism: On Sam Harris
Page 215
Rachel Aviv. God Knows Where I Am
Page 237
About The Contributors
Page 261

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Published in
New York, USA
Series
Best American Science Writing
Copyright Date
2012

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Library of Congress
Q158.5 .B47 2012

Contributors

Editor
Michio Kaku
Editor
Jesse Cohen

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
304

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26104574M
ISBN 10
0062117912
ISBN 13
9780062117915
OCLC/WorldCat
777624868
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
13624079

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OL17515932W

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