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The Best American Science Writing 2006

10 best books like The Best American Science Writing 2006 (Atul Gawande): Coma, Tales of Moonlight and Rain, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015, Metal Cats, The Woman Destroyed

Coma
AuthorRobin Cook
ISBN0316334464
The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time.

They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were...
Tales of Moonlight and Rain
AuthorUeda Akinari
ISBN0231139128
First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination with the strange and the grotesque. They were...
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
AuthorDavid Epstein
ISBN0735214484
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think.

Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013
AuthorSiddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN0544003438
The Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2013.

This collection of twenty-seven articles was edited by Siddhartha Mukherjee, a scientist and author of the runaway bestseller “The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”. He did a great job of choosing which ones to include here.

There...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007
AuthorRichard Preston
ISBN0618722319
"Science is about not knowing and wanting badly to know. Science is about flawed and complicated human beings trying to use whatever tools they've got, along with their minds, to see something strange and new. In that sense, writing about science is just another way of writing about the human condition."...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009
AuthorElizabeth Kolbert
ISBN0547002599
I know 'green' is the new hot thing, but this collection seriously suffered from a huge overemphasis on articles about the environment. I'm happy to read them, but I also want to read about physics and neurology and mathematics and biochemistry and other fields I don't even know about! The articles in...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010
AuthorFreeman Dyson
ISBN0547327846
An excellent book in an excellent series. Reading and reviewing it now, some of the information is dated: for example, Dr. Dyson cheerily states that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to increased growth in plants, and the latest data in 2015 indicate that any benefit from more CO2 is offset...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015
AuthorRebecca Skloot
The Best American Series
 
The next edition in a series praised as “undeniably exquisite” (Maria Popova), The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 includes work from both award-winning writers and up-and-coming voices in the field. From Brooke Jarvis on deep-ocean mining...
Metal Cats
AuthorAlexandra Crockett
ISBN1576876772
Skulls and Siamese. Corpse paint and Persians. Baphomet, pentagrams, blood, and tabbies!

Metal Cats combines two amazing subjects: the extreme personalities of the hardcore metal music scene and their adorable kitties. These incredibly cute and fluffy felines have been photographed...
The Woman Destroyed
AuthorSimone de Beauvoir
Rich and powerful writing in these three novellas. I will definitely read more of this author.

The first novella, The Age of Discretion, centers around the aging process and the end of careers of both husband and wife. In addition, there’s the bitter disappointment the woman feels after...
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