The Best American Science and Nature Writing
없습니다
도서+교보Only(교보배송)을 함께 15,000원 이상 구매 시 무료배송
15,000원 미만 시 2,500원 배송비 부과
20,000원 미만 시 2,500원 배송비 부과
15,000원 미만 시 2,500원 배송비 부과
1Box 기준 : 도서 10권
알립니다.
- 본 상품은 주문 후 제작되는 맞춤도서입니다.
주문기간에 따라 도서 출고일은 영업일 기준 최소 3일에서 최대 8일이 소요됩니다. - 해외주문도서는 고객님의 요청에 의해 주문하는 '개인 오더' 상품이기 때문에, 단순한 고객변심/착오로 인한 취소, 반품, 교환의 경우 '해외주문 반품/취소 수수료'를 부담하셔야 합니다. 이점 유의하여 주시기 바랍니다.
- 반품/취소 수수료:(1)서양도서-판매정가의 12%, (2)일본도서-판매정가의 7% (반품/취소 수수료는, 수입제반비용(FedEx수송비용, 관세사비, 보세창고료, 내륙 운송비, 통관비 등)과 재고리스크(미판매 리스크, 환차손)에 따른 비용을 포함하며, 서양도서는 판매정가의 12%, 일본도서는 판매정가의 7%가 적용됩니다.)
- 외국도서의 경우 해외제공정보로만 서비스되어 미표기가된 정보가 있을 수 있습니다. 필요한 정보가 있을경우 1:1 문의게시판 을 이용하여 주십시오.
취소/반품에 대한 안내
POD도서는 고객 주문 후 제작되는 도서로, 단순변심 및 착오로 인한 취소, 반품이 절대 불가하니 이점 반드시 유의하여 주시기 바랍니다.
해외주문/바로드림/제휴사주문/업체배송건의 경우 1+1 증정상품이 발송되지 않습니다.
패키지
북카드
NATALIE ANGIER writes about biology for the New York Times, where she has won a Pulitzer Prize, the American Association for the Advancement of Science journalism award, and other honors. She is the author of The Beauty of the Beastly, Natural Obsessions, and Woman, named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, People, National Public Radio, Village Voice, and Publishers Weekly, among others. A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist, Woman is "a text so necessary and abundant and true that all efforts of its kind, for decades before and after it, will be measured by it" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Angier lives with her husband and daughter outside of Washington, D.C.
TIM FOLGER is a contributing editor atDiscoverand writes about science for several magazines.
Foreword Every profession has its rite of passage, a crucible guaranteed to roil doubts and second thoughts about career choices. Pilots have their solo flights, surgeons their operations. For science journalists, it's that first crucial interview when they realize, with mounting unease, that they don't understand a single word of what some scientist is telling them. It happened to me several years ago. I had just started working as a reporter for Discover magazine and managed to convince my editor that I was ready to write a feature. One of the people I needed to interview for the story was an eminent physicist, a Nobel laureate. He graciously set aside two hours of his time one wintry afternoon in Princeton to talk to me about a perplexing problem in his field, a problem that was to be the subject of my article. I turned on my tape recorder and asked my first question. In reply the physicist said something about an "antisymmetric total eigenfunction." It wasn't the sort of answer I was looking for. Worse, it wasn't the sort of answer I could understand. From there the gap between what the physicist said and what I followed could have been measured in megaparsecs. For the next 7,200 seconds I had almost no idea what this kindly, renowned, thoughtful gentleman was talking about. Sure, I could recognize the odd phrase here and there, but entire sentences might as well have been transmitted in a frequency range audible only to canines for all they meant to me. Somehow the few questions I sputtered during the remainder of the interview didn't betray my utter befuddlement and growing panic. For the most part I sat silently perspiring, nodding or grunting now and then to foster the illusion of comprehension. When the interview finally ended I walked from the snow-covered campus to the train that would take me back to Manhattan, wondering how I would ever wring a story from such impenetrable raw material before my deadline. Over the next few weeks, after many more hours of interviews and phone conversations with perhaps a dozen physicists, I finished the assignment. The work was grueling, but satisfying. That first interview turned out to be similar to many others in the years ahead. Although the panicky fear of failing to deliver a story eventually faded, the hard labor of translating the work of scientists into something that people will pay to read hasn't changed at all. Good writing is never easy, but writing about science is extraordinarily challenging. Most journalists, whether they're covering crime, politics, or business, can at least assume a common vocabulary, a certain degree of shared knowledge, on the part of their readers, not to mention their interview subjects. Science writers don't have that luxury. First they need to understand enough of the subject at hand to ask relevant questions. Then they must mold their interview notes and background reading of sundry science journals into a narrative that a reader will not just understand but enjoy. Not an easy profession. Fortunately for us, there are many people who do it extremely well. The stories they tell are compelling, perhaps the most important of our time. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the controversial physicist who headed the Manhattan Project during World War II, once said, "Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics." The stories science tells us are not always comforting. Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate physicist (not the one who so confounded me years ago), has said that the more physicists study the universe, the more pointless it all seems. Sci
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002, edited by Natalie Angier, is another "eclectic, provocative collection" (Entertainment Weekly). Malcolm Gladwell, Joy Williams, Barbara Ehrenreich, Burkhard Bilger, Dennis Overbye, and many more of the best and brightest writers on science and nature explore such topics as the rise and fall of Islamic science, disappearing cancers, and the meaning of mountain lions in the back yard.
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002, edited by Natalie Angier, is another "eclectic, provocative collection" (Entertainment Weekly). Malcolm Gladwell, Joy Williams, Barbara Ehrenreich, Burkhard Bilger, Dennis Overbye, and many more of the best and brightest writers on science and nature explore such topics as the rise and fall of Islamic science, disappearing cancers, and the meaning of mountain lions in the back yard.
"An elite grouping of very readable and informative articles on some of today's most challenging and colorful scientific issues."
"Eloquent, accessible and often illuminating anthology"
"Eloquent, accessible and often illuminating anthology" Publishers Weekly "An elite grouping of very readable and informative articles on some of today's most challenging and colorful scientific issues." Kirkus Reviews
Contents Foreword xi Introduction by Natalie Angier xv Roy F. Baumeister. Violent Pride 1 from Scientific American Burkhard Bilger. Braised Shank of Free-Range Possum? 10 from Outside K. C. Cole. Mind Over Matter 21 from The Los Angeles Times Richard Conniff and Harry Marshall. In the Realm of Virtual Reality 24 from Smithsonian Frederick C. Crews. Saving Us from Darwin 34 from The New York Review of Books Barbara Ehrenreich. Welcome to Cancerland 58 from Harper"s Magazine H. Bruce Franklin. The Most Important Fish in the Sea 80 from Discover Malcolm Gladwell. Examined Life 89 from The New Yorker Gary Greenberg. As Good as Dead 101 from The New Yorker Gordon Grice. Is That a Mountain Lion in Your Backyard? 114 from Discover Blaine Harden. The Dirt in the New Machine 124 from The New York Times Magazine Robert M. Hazen. Life"s Rocky Start 137 from Scienti'c American Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. Mothers and Others 148 from Natural History Garret Keizer. Sound and Fury 161 from Harper"s Magazine Verlyn Klinkenborg. The Pursuit of Innocence in the Golden State 179 from The New York Times Robert Kunzig. Ripe for Controversy 181 from Discover Anne Matthews. Wall Street Losses, Wall Street Gains 185 from Orion Steve Mirsky. Dumb, Dumb, Duh Dumb 196 from Scienti'c American Judith Newman. "I Have Seen Cancers Disappear" 198 from Discover Dennis Overbye. How Islam Won, and Lost, the Lead in Science 210 from The New York Times Chet Raymo. A Little Reminder of Reality"s Scale 218 from The Boston Globe Eric Schlosser. Why McDonald"s Fries Taste So Good 221 from The Atlantic Monthly Daniel Smith. Shock and Disbelief 234 from The Atlantic Monthly Peter Stark. The Sting of the Assassin 255 from Outside Clive Thompson. The Know-It-All Machine 266 from Lingua Franca Joy Williams. One Acre 281 from Harper"s Magazine Karen Wright. Very Dark Energy 292 from Discover Contributors" Notes 301 Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2001 306
작가정보
목차
Foreword p. xi Introduction p. xv Violent Pride 1 from Scientific American Burkhard Bilger Braised Shank of Free-Range Possum? 10 from Outside Mind Over Matter 21 from The Los Angeles Times In the Realm of Virtual Reality 24 from Smithsonian Saving Us from Darwin 34 from The New York Review of Books Welcome to Cancerland 58 from Harper""s Magazine The Most Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.
기본정보
ISBN | 9780618134786 ( 0618134786 ) |
---|---|
발행(출시)일자 | 2002년 09월 12일 |
쪽수 | 336쪽 |
크기 |
140 * 213
* 23
mm
/ 431 g
|
총권수 | 1권 |
언어 | 영어 |
Klover
e교환권은 적립 일로부터 180일 동안 사용 가능합니다.
리워드는 작성 후 다음 날 제공되며, 발송 전 작성 시 발송 완료 후 익일 제공됩니다.
리워드는 리뷰 종류별로 구매한 아이디당 한 상품에 최초 1회 작성 건들에 대해서만 제공됩니다.
판매가 1,000원 미만 도서의 경우 리워드 지급 대상에서 제외됩니다.
일부 타인의 권리를 침해하거나 불편을 끼치는 것을 방지하기 위해 아래에 해당하는 Klover 리뷰는 별도의 통보 없이 삭제될 수 있습니다.
- 도서나 타인에 대해 근거 없이 비방을 하거나 타인의 명예를 훼손할 수 있는 리뷰
- 도서와 무관한 내용의 리뷰
- 인신공격이나 욕설, 비속어, 혐오발언이 개재된 리뷰
- 의성어나 의태어 등 내용의 의미가 없는 리뷰
리뷰는 1인이 중복으로 작성하실 수는 있지만, 평점계산은 가장 최근에 남긴 1건의 리뷰만 반영됩니다.
구매 후 리뷰 작성 시, e교환권 200원 적립
문장수집
e교환권은 적립 일로부터 180일 동안 사용 가능합니다. 리워드는 작성 후 다음 날 제공되며, 발송 전 작성 시 발송 완료 후 익일 제공됩니다.
리워드는 한 상품에 최초 1회만 제공됩니다.
주문취소/반품/절판/품절 시 리워드 대상에서 제외됩니다.
구매 후 리뷰 작성 시, e교환권 100원 적립