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Gleick, James

 
9780060957360: The Best American Science Writing 2000

Sinopsis

The first volume in this annual series of the best writing by Americans, meticulously selected by bestselling author James Gleick, one of the foremost chronicles of scientific social history, debuts with a stellar collection of writers and thinkers.  Many of these cutting-edge essays offer glimpses of new realms of discovery and thought, exploring territory that is unfamiliar to most of us, or finding the unexpected in the midst of the familiar.  Nobel Laureate physicist Steven Weinberg challenges the idea of whether the universe has a designer; Pulitzer Prize winner Natalie Angier reassesses caveman (and-woman) couture; bestselling author and Darwinian theorist Stephen Jay Gould makes a claim for the man whose ideas Darwin discredited; Timothy Ferris proposes a realistic alternative to wrap-speed interseller travel; neurologist and bestselling author Oliver Sacks reminisces about his first loves-chemistry and math.  This diverse, stimulating and accessible collection is required reading for anyone who wants to travel to the frontier of knowledge.

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The first volume in a new annual series featuring the finest science writing by American authors offers a remarkable selection of works on topics ranging from biochemistry and physics to evolutionary theory, cognition, and astronomy, by Stephen Jay Gould, Timothy Ferris, Deborah M. Gordon, Susan McCarthy, Peter Galison, and other notable writers. Simultaneous.

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