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ISBN: 9780061345777

ListPrice: $14.95

Edition: First Edition

Summary: Provocative and engaging, this collection brings together the premiere science writing of the year. Featuring the imprimatur of bestselling author and "New York Times" reporter Gina Kolata, one of the nation's foremost voices in science and medicine, and with contributions from Atul Gawande, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Oliver Sacks, among others, "The Best American Science Writing 2007" is a compelling anthology of our most advanced, and most relevant, scientific inquiries.

ISBN: 9780618722310

ListPrice: $14.00

Edition: First Edition

Summary: This "wonderful series...where students find plenty of inspiration" (New Scientist), "The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007" is edited by Richard Preston, best-selling author of "The Hot Zone", "The Cobra Event" and other books.

ISBN: 0618242953

ListPrice: $27.00

Edition: First Edition

Summary: With the singular intelligence and exuberance that made Woman an international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on a “guided twirligig through the scientific canon.” She draws on conversations with hundreds of the world’s top scientists, and her own work as a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for the New York Times, to create a thoroughly entertaining guide to scientific literacy. People magazine says, “Angier has that rare dual talent: a true passion for science combined with a poet’s linguistic flair.” Those gifts are on full display in The Canon, an ebullient celebration of science that stands to become a classic. The Canon is a joyride through the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. It’s vital reading for anyone who wants to understand the great issues of our time—from stem cells and bird flu to evolution and global warming. It’s also one of those rare books that reignites our childhood delight in figuring out how things work: we learn what’s actually happening when our ice cream melts or our coffee gets cold, what our liver cells do when we eat a caramel, how the horse shows evolution at work, and that we really are all made of stardust. It’s Lewis Carroll meets Lewis Thomas—a book that will enrapture, inspire, and enlighten.