Details

Edition

First edition.

Description

xv, 346 pages ; 21 cm

Note

"An Ecco book".

Contents

introduction / 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.

Subject

Science.

Technical writing.

Added Author

Angier, Natalie.

Cohen, Jesse.

ISBN

9780061431661 paperback $14.99

0061431664