@book {9192, title = {The Best American Science and Nature Writing}, year = {2004}, publisher = {Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt}, organization = {Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt}, abstract = { "A provocative and thoroughly\ enjoyable [collection] from\ start to finish."{\textemdash}Publishers Weekly Here is the best and newest on science and nature: the psychology of suicide terrorism, desperate measures in surgery, the weird world of octopuses, Sex Week at Yale, the linguistics of click languages, the worst news about cloning, and much more. \ Chapters by Scott Atran, Ronald Bailey, Philip M. Boffey, Austin Bunn, Jennet Conant, Daniel C. Dennett, Gregg Easterbrook, Garrett G. Fagan, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Atul Gawande, Horace Freeland Judson, Geoffrey Nunberg, Mike O{\textquoteright}Connor, Peggy Orenstein, Virginia Postrel, Jonathan Rauch, Chet Raymo, Ron Rosenbaum, Steve Sailer, Robert Sapolsky, Eric Scigliano, Meredith F. Small, Max Tegmark, and Nicholas Wade. AVAILABLE AT:AmazonAmazon UKBarnes \& NobleIndieBound }, author = {Steven Pinker} }