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Books : The Best American Science Writing 2008 |
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780061340413
ISBN: 0061340413
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: September 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: September 09, 2008
Studio: Harper Perennial
Sales Rank: 8904
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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 Prizewinner 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.
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I'm a huge fan of this series, vastly preferring it to the competing "Best Science and Nature Writing." But this is easily the weakest volume yet, largely due to an amazingly lazy job by editor Sylvia Nasar. There are four basic problems with the book:
1. The ridiculously narrow range of publications from which the essays are drawn. See "David M. Giltinan"'s review for details, and I completely agree with his analysis. To me, it seems like Nasar, a Columbia U journalism prof, essentially ... Read More
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In a series that's usually reliably interesting and intellectually stimulating, this year's collection was somewhat disappointing, due to an unusually narrow focus. In her introduction, Sylvia Nasar tells us that she gravitated to the stories that "people were talking about". An idiosyncratic interpretation of the criterion "best", and it shows. The articles in this book come from -
The New York Times : 9
The New Yorker : 6
The Wall Street Journal : 1
Wired : 1
Scientific ... Read More
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I anxiously await the publication of this annual edition and the 2008 version does not disappoint. The guest editor this year (Sylvia Nasar - "A Beautiful Mind") picks which articles she thinks are the best and the selections reflect her interests. Whether you consider it good or bad, there is not a single hard science article. The selections are heavy on medicine, psychiatry, psychology, and the pharmaceutical industry. For a guaranteed good time - grab a copy, curl up, and enjoy yourself.
Amy ... Read More
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780061340413
ISBN: 0061340413
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: September 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: September 09, 2008
Studio: Harper Perennial
Sales Rank: 8904
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