Best American Science Writing 2010

Informationen zum Autor Jerome Groopman, editor, has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for The New Yorker since 1998. He is also 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 How Doctors Think , which was a New York Times bestseller. Jesse Cohen is a writer and freelance editor. He lives in New York City. Klappentext Edited by New York Times bestselling author Jerome Groopman, The Best American Science Writing 2010 collects in one volume the most crucial, thought-provoking, and engaging science writing of the year. Distinguished by new and impressive voices as well as some of the foremost names in science writing—David Dobbs, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Larissa MacFarquhar among them—this eleventh edition features outstanding journalism from a wide variety of publications, providing a comprehensive overview of the year’s most compelling, relevant, and exciting developments in the world of science. Provocative and engaging, The Best American Science Writing 2010 reveals just how far science has brought us—and where it is headed next. Zusammenfassung The eleventh edition of the popular annual series that Kirkus Reviews hails as “superb brain candy,”  The Best American Science Writing 2010 is a sterling collection of the most crucial, thought-provoking, and engaging science writing of the year. Edited by New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman and series editor Jesse Cohen, The Best American Science Writing 2010 offers provocative looks at the latest scientific developments—from the fields of genetics, environmentalism, astronomy, biochemistry, and more—and is an absolute must read for any fan of popular science. ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jesse Cohen, Jerome Groopman
• Editore: Ecco Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.09.2010
• EAN: 9780061852510
• ISBN: 978-0-06-185251-0
• Pagine: 368
• Dimensioni: 138 mm x 205 mm x 22 mm
• Serie: Best American Science Writing
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Science: general issues, History of Science, Biology, life sciences, Inventions and inventors, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Earth Sciences, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Military engineering, SCIENCE: General, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE: Earth Sciences / General, COMPOSITION & WRITING: JOURNALISM, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING: Inventions, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING: Military Science, SCIENCE: Applied Sciences, Composition & Writing / Journalism