The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011

by Roach, Mary

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1st

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9780547350639

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0547350635

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10/4/2011

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HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY (COLLEGE DIVISION)

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Summary

Edited by outrageously curious science writer Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, Bonk,and Packing for Mars,this collection brings together the best and brightest writers on science and nature.

Author Biography

Mary Roach, editor, is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. She has written for National Geographic Wired, New Scientist, the New York Times Book Review, the journal of Clinical Anatomy, and Outside, among others. She is a member of the Mars Institute's advisory board and a winner of the American Engineering Societies' Engineering Journalism Award, a category in which-let's be honest-she was the sole entrant.

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
The Organ Dealer: from Discover	p. 1
Nature's Spoils: from The New Yorker	p. 15
The Chemist's War: from Slate	p. 37
Fertility Rites: from The Atlantic	p. 42
The Brain That Changed Everything: from Esquire	p. 46
Emptying the Skies: from The New Yorker	p. 69
Fish Out of Water: from The New Yorker	p. 96
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science: from The Atlantic	p. 112
Letting Go: from The New Yorker	p. 127
The Treatment: from The New Yorker	p. 157
Cosmic Blueprint of Life: 176 from Discover	p. 176
The (Elusive) Theory of Everything: from Scientific American	p. 186
Spectral Light: 191 from Orion	p. 191
The Spill Seekers: from Outside	p. 204
New Dog in Town: from Orion	p. 222
TahingaFall: from Popular Mechanics	p. 232
The First Church of Robotics: from the New York Times	p. 238
The Love That Dare Not Squawk Its Name: from the New York Times Magazine	p. 243
Could Time End"?: from Scientific American	p. 263
Sign Here If You Exist: from Ecotone	p. 274
Face-Blind: from The New Yorker	p. 291
Waste MGMT: from Wired	p. 306
The Whole Fracking Enchilada: from Orion	p. 315
The New King of the Sea: from Smithsonian	p. 319
The Killer in the Pool: from Outside	p. 329
Contributors' Notes	p. 353
Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2010	p. 358
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