The Best American Science Writing 2011
by Rebecca Skloot (Editor), Jesse Cohen (Series Editor), Floyd Skloot (Editor)
The Best American Science Writing (2011), Best American (2011)
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The 2011 edition of the popular annual series that Kirkus Reviews hailed as "superb brain candy," Best American Science Writing 2011 continues the tradition of gathering the most crucial, thought-provoking and engaging science writing of the year together into one extraordinary volume. Edited by Rebecca Skloot, award-winning science writer, contributing editor for Popular Science magazine, and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, along with her show more father, Floyd Skloot, multiple award-winning non-fiction writer and poet, and past contributor to the series, Best American Science Writing 2011 sheds brilliant light on the most amazing and confounding scientific issues and achievements of our time. show lessTags
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I was glued to every article in this book--which surprised me with my Facebook-level attention span.
i don't know why there is best american science writing AND best american science and nature writing.
anyway i really like the best american series and am reading one every month.
anyway i really like the best american series and am reading one every month.
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Jerome Groopman is the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author of four books, most recently Anatomy of Hope and the New York Times bestseller How Doctors Think. He has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for the New Yorker show more since 1998. Jesse Cohen is a writer and freelance editor who lives in New York City. show less
Floyd Skloot is the author of three novels, four collections of poetry, and a collection of essays
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- The Best American Science Writing 2011
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- 2011
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