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Overview"Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004, edited by Steven Pinker, is another ""provocative and thoroughly enjoyable [collection] from start to finish"" (Publishers Weekly). Here is the best and newest on science and nature: the psychology of suicide terrorism, desperate measures in surgery, the weird world of octopuses, Sex Week at Yale, the linguistics of click languages, the worst news about cloning, and much more." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tim Folger , Stephen PinkerPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Imprint: Houghton Mifflin (Trade) Edition: 2004 ed. Volume: 2004 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 20.80cm Weight: 0.268kg ISBN: 9780618246984ISBN 10: 0618246983 Pages: 209 Publication Date: 14 October 2004 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsProvocative and thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish. Author InformationTIM FOLGER is a contributing editor at Discover and writes about science for several magazines. He lives in New Mexico. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |