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The Best American Science Writing 2004

Author : Dava Sobel
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060726407
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Science Writing 2004 written by Dava Sobel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Kahn's "Stripped for Parts" was selected as the lead story of this year's Best American Science Writing because, as Dava Sobel, best-selling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, reveals, "it begins with one of the most arresting openings I have ever read." In "Columbia's Last Flight," William Langewiesche recounts the February 1, 2003, space shuttle tragedy, along with the investigation into the nationwide complacency that brought the ship down. K. C. Cole's "Fun with Physics" is a profile of astrophysicist Janet Conrad that blends her personal life with professional activity. In "Desperate Measures," the doctor and writer Atul Gawande profiles the surgeon Francis Daniels Moore, whose experiments in the 1940s and '50s pushed medicine harder and farther than almost anyone had contemplated. Also included is a poem by the legendary John Updike, "Mars as Bright as Venus." The collection ends with Diane Ackerman's "ebullient" essay "We Are All a Part of Nature." Together these twenty-three articles on a wide range of today's most current topics in science -- from biology, physics, biotechnology, and astronomy, to anthropology, genetics, evolutionary theory, and cognition‚ represent the full spectrum of scientific writing from America's most prominent science authors, proving once again that "good science writing is evidently plentiful" (Scientific American).

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004

Author : Tim Folger
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780618246984
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 written by Tim Folger and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of nature and science based essays by such authors as Scott Atran, Jennet Conant, Gregg Easterbrook, Garrett G. Fagan, Jonathan Rauch, Chet Raymo, and Robert Sapolsky.

The Best American Science Writing 2004

Author : Dava Sobel
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780060726393
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Science Writing 2004 written by Dava Sobel and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes the articles found in The Best American Science Writing 2004 "the best"? As Dava Sobel, best-selling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, writes in her introduction, "First and most important, all are extremely well written. This sounds obvious, and it is, but for me it means the pieces impart genuine pleasure via the writers' choice of words and the rhythm of their phrases ... 'I wish I'd written that,' was my own frequent reaction to the articles I ultimately chose." This year, Jennifer Kahn's "Stripped for Parts" was selected as the lead story because, as Sobel reveals, "it begins with one of the most arresting openings I have ever read." In "Columbia's Last Flight," William Langewiesche recounts the February 1, 2003, space shuttle tragedy, along with the investigation into the nationwide complacency that brought the ship down. K. C. Cole's "Fun with Physics" is a profile of astrophysicist Janet Conrad that blends her personal life with professional activity. In "Desperate Measures," the doctor and writer Atul Gawande profiles the surgeon Francis Daniels Moore, whose experiments in the 1940s and '50s pushed medicine harder and farther than almost anyone had contemplated. Also included is a poem by the legendary John Updike, "Mars as Bright as Venus." The collection ends with Diane Ackerman's "ebullient" essay "We Are All a Part of Nature." Together these twenty-three articles on a wide range of today's most current topics in science -- from biology, physics, biotechnology, and astronomy, to anthropology, genetics, evolutionary theory, and cognition -- represent the full spectrum of scientific writing from America's most prominent science authors, proving once again that "good science writing is evidently plentiful" (Scientific American).

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019

Author : Sy Montgomery
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 1328519007
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 written by Sy Montgomery and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. New York Times best-selling author of How to Be a Good Creature, The Soul of an Octopus, The Good Good Pig, and more, Sy Montgomery, selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity, and, in the process, uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines.

Best American Science And Nature Writing 2004

Author : Tim Folger
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417717095
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Best American Science And Nature Writing 2004 written by Tim Folger and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects nature- and science-based essays by such authors as Anne Fadiman, Brian Hayes, Cullen Murphy, and Gary Taubes.

A Field Guide for Science Writers

Author : Deborah Blum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199884099
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide for Science Writers written by Deborah Blum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Field Guide for Science Writing, much about the world has changed. Some of the leading issues in today's political marketplace - embryonic stem cell research, global warming, health care reform, space exploration, genetic privacy, germ warfare - are informed by scientific ideas. Never has it been more crucial for the lay public to be scientifically literate. That's where science writers come in. And that's why it's time for an update to the Field Guide, already a staple of science writing graduate programs across the country. The academic community has recently recognized how important it is for writers to become more sophisticated, knowledgeable, and skeptical about what they write. More than 50 institutions now offer training in science writing. In addition mid-career fellowships for science writers are growing, giving journalists the chance to return to major universities for specialized training. We applaud these developments, and hope to be part of them with this new edition of the Field Guide. In A Field Guide for Science Writers, 2nd Edition, the editors have assembled contributions from a collections of experienced journalists who are every bit as stellar as the group that contributed to the first edition. In the end, what we have are essays written by the very best in the science writing profession. These wonderful writers have written not only about style, but about content, too. These leaders in the profession describe how they work their way through the information glut to find the gems worth writing about. We also have chapters that provide the tools every good science writer needs: how to use statistics, how to weigh the merits of conflicting studies in scientific literature, how to report about risk. And, ultimately, how to write.

Communicating Popular Science

Author : S. Perrault
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137017589
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Communicating Popular Science written by S. Perrault and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technoscientific developments often have far-reaching consequences, both negative and positive, for the public. Yet, because science has the authority to decide which judgments about scientific issues are sound, public concerns are often dismissed because they are not part of the technoscientific paradigm they question. This book addresses the role of science popularization in that paradox; it explains how science writing works and argues that it can do better at promoting public discussions about science-related issues. To support these arguments, it situates science popularization in its historical and cultural context; provides a conceptual framework for analyzing popular science texts; and examines the rhetorical effects of common strategies used in popular science writing. Twenty-six years after Dorothy Nelkin's groundbreaking book, Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology, popular science writing is still not meeting its potential as a public interest genre; Communicating Popular Science explores how it can move closer to doing so.

Best American Science Writing

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1092 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best American Science Writing written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Louis Agassiz

Author : Christoph Irmscher
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547577672
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Louis Agassiz written by Christoph Irmscher and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative new life restoring Agassiz--America's most famous natural scientist of the 19th century, inventor of the Ice Age, stubborn anti-Darwinist--to his glorious, troubling place in science and culture.

Reading the Roots

Author : Michael P. Branch
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820325484
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Roots written by Michael P. Branch and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the Roots is an unprecedented anthology of outstanding early writings about American nature--a rich, influential, yet critically underappreciated body of work. Rather than begin with Henry David Thoreau, who is often identified as the progenitor of American nature writing, editor Michael P. Branch instead surveys the long tradition that prefigures and anticipates Thoreau and his literary descendants. The selections in Reading the Roots describe a diversity of landscapes, wildlife, and natural phenomena, and their authors represent many different nationalities, cultural affiliations, religious views, and ideological perspectives. The writings gathered here also range widely in terms of subject, rhetorical form, and disciplinary approach--from promotional tracts and European narratives of contact with Native Americans to examples of scientific theology and romantic nature writing. The volume also includes a critical introduction discussing the cultural, scientific, and literary value of early American nature writing; headnotes that contextualize all authors and selections; and a substantial bibliography of primary and secondary sources in the field. Reading the Roots at last makes early American landscapes--and a range of literary responses to them--accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.

The Best American Science and Nature Writing

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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21st Century Journalism in India

Author : Nalini Rajan
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761935629
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book 21st Century Journalism in India written by Nalini Rajan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text discusses the theories and practices of journalism in 21st India. The four main sections examine dealing with the media representation of marginalized groups of society, studying the coverage of important areas such as economics and science, different kinds of journalistic practice, and future trends of journalism.

The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2005

Author : Jonathan Weiner
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 9780618273416
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2005 written by Jonathan Weiner and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for - edited by Elizabeth Kolbert.

Ancient Mythology of Modern Science

Author : Gregory Allen Schrempp
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773539891
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Mythology of Modern Science written by Gregory Allen Schrempp and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the nature of myth-making and its surprising appearance in popular science writing.

A Field Guide for Science Writers

Author : Deborah Blum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198039026
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide for Science Writers written by Deborah Blum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Field Guide for Science Writing, much about the world has changed. Some of the leading issues in today's political marketplace - embryonic stem cell research, global warming, health care reform, space exploration, genetic privacy, germ warfare - are informed by scientific ideas. Never has it been more crucial for the lay public to be scientifically literate. That's where science writers come in. And that's why it's time for an update to the Field Guide, already a staple of science writing graduate programs across the country. The academic community has recently recognized how important it is for writers to become more sophisticated, knowledgeable, and skeptical about what they write. More than 50 institutions now offer training in science writing. In addition mid-career fellowships for science writers are growing, giving journalists the chance to return to major universities for specialized training. We applaud these developments, and hope to be part of them with this new edition of the Field Guide. In A Field Guide for Science Writers, 2nd Edition, the editors have assembled contributions from a collections of experienced journalists who are every bit as stellar as the group that contributed to the first edition. In the end, what we have are essays written by the very best in the science writing profession. These wonderful writers have written not only about style, but about content, too. These leaders in the profession describe how they work their way through the information glut to find the gems worth writing about. We also have chapters that provide the tools every good science writer needs: how to use statistics, how to weigh the merits of conflicting studies in scientific literature, how to report about risk. And, ultimately, how to write.

The Best of the Best of American Science Writing

Author : Jesse Cohen
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780061875007
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Best of the Best of American Science Writing written by Jesse Cohen and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a decade, Ecco has published the most outstanding science writing in America, collected in highly acclaimed annual volumes edited by some of the most impressive and most important names in science and science writing today: James Gleick, Timothy Ferris, Matt Ridley, Oliver Sacks, Dava Sobel, Alan Lightman, Atul Gawande, Gina Kolata, Sylvia Nasar, and Natalie Angier. Now series editor Jesse Cohen invites the previous guest editors to select their favorite essays for this one-of-a-kind anthology. The result is an outstanding compendium—the best science writing of the new millennium, featuring an introduction by the series' 2010 editor and New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Author : Mary Roach
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393324826
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers written by Mary Roach and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.