Product Description: Honoring the 10th anniversary of Ecco’s acclaimed Best American Science Writing series, here is Best of the Best of American Science Writing. The ten previous guest editors—including Oliver Sacks, Natalie Angier, Alan Lightman, Sylvia Nasar, and Matt Ridley—have selected their favorite essays for this one-of-a-kind anthology; eye-opening and provocative gems that, collectively, are truly the Best of the Best of American Science Writing...read more

Product Description: Edited by Natalie Angier, the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Woman: An Intimate Geography, Best American Science Writing 2009 is the ninth edition of the popular annual series hailed as “superb brain candy” (Kirkus) and dedicated to collecting the most crucial, thought-provoking and engaging science writing of the year...read more

Product Description: Edited by Sylvia Nasar, bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind and former economics correspondent for the New York Times, The Best American Science Writing 2008 brings together the premiere science writing of the year. Distinguished by the foremost voices and publications—among them Pulitzer Prize-winner Amy Harmon, Nobel Prize–winner Al Gore, and award-winning and bestselling author Oliver Sacks—this anthology is a comprehensive overview of our most advanced and most relevant scientific inquiries...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

A latest collection in the annual series features a selection of the year's most significant writings on key scientific developments in genetics, physics, cognition, evolutionary theory, astronomy, and other fields and is complemented by an accessible overview. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Collects top articles from numerous publications to cover the full range of scientific inquiry, including biochemistry, physics, astronomy, genetics, evolutionary theory, and cognition to represent the year's most significant scientific developments.

A collection of top writings by prominent science journalists and pioneers covers the full range of scientific inquiry, from biochemistry, physics, and astronomy to genetics, evolutionary biology, and cognition.

The second in an annual collection of the best science writing includes articles on biochemistry, physics, astronomy, genetics, evolutionary theory, cognition, and other fascinating topics, by John Updike, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Preston, Tracy Kidder, Alan Lightman, Natalie Angier, and other distinguished contributors. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Here is a very special first tool set. A brightly colored toolbox holds six sturdy tool-shaped board books that are perfect for pretend tinkering and reading, too! Full color.