| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 333 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
"An Ecco book." |
| Contents |
Introduction / by Gina Kolata -- The theory of everything / Tyler Cabot -- Manifold destiny / Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber -- Looking for the lie / Robin Marantz Henig -- Face blind / Joshua Davis -- Stereo Sue / Oliver Sacks -- Probling a mind for cure / Stacey Burling -- A depression switch? / David Dobbs -- With lasers and daring, doctors race to save a young man's brain / Denise Grady -- Being there / Jerome Groopman -- God or gorilla / Matthew Chapman -- The score / Atul Gawande -- Truth and consequences / Jennifer Couzin -- The man on the table was 97, but he devised the surgery / Lawrence K. Altman -- Butterfly lessons / Elizabeth Kolbert -- In ancient fossils, seeds of a new debate on warmilng / William J. Broad -- John Koza has built an invention machine / Jonathon Keats -- Mind games / John Cassidy -- Schweitzer's dangerous discovery / Barry Yeoman -- Cooking for eggheads / Patricia Gadsby -- Hollywood's science guru / Gregory Mone. |
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Science. |
| Subject |
Technical writing.
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| Added Author |
Kolata, Gina Bari, 1948-
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Cohen, Jesse.
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| ISBN |
9780061345777 (pbk.) |
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0061345776 (pbk.) |
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