Woman : an intimate geography

Woman : an intimate geography

Woman : an intimate geography

Deceptive beauties : the world of wild orchids

The canon : a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science

The canon [sound recording] : [a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science]

Alabama Studio style : more projects, recipes & stories celebrating sustainable fashion & living

The bitch in the house : 26 women tell the truth about sex, solitude, work, motherhood, and marriage

Excuse me while I explode: my mother, myself, my anger / Getting the milk for free / Crossing to safety / Moving in, moving out, moving on / Papa don't preach / Memoirs of an ex-bride: looking back, looking ahead / I do, not: why I won't marry / Killing the Puritan within / Houseguest hell: my home is not your home / A man in the heart / Why I hate that my mother was right (well, about most things): turning into Elizabeth Taylor / How we became strangers / Erotics 102: staying bad, staying married / My marriage, my affairs / My mother's ring: caught between two families / Attila the honey I'm home / The myth of co-parenting: how it was supposed to be, how it was / Daddy dearest: what happens when he does more than his half? / Crossing the line in the sand: how mad can mother get? / Maternal bitch / The origin, procreation, and hopes of an angry feminist / Married at 46: the agony and the ecstasy / The fat lady sings / The middle way: learning to balance family and work / What independence has come to mean to me: the pain of solitude, the pleasure of self-knowledge / The perfect equality of our separate chosen paths: becoming a mother, or not

John Wayne classics [DVD]

The best American science writing, 2009

introduction / itch / Twitchy / first ache / journey inside the brain / truth about autism / Blocking the transmission of violence / Reading the wounds / cloud of smoke / War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing / Face-offs of the female kind / Tough lessons from golden rice / Back to the future / tall, cool drink of... sewage? / Contagious cancer / Looking up / Birdbrain / Want to remember everything you'll ever learn? Surrender to this algorithm / Hello, HAL / anonymity experiment / sky is falling / Big brain theory: have cosmologists lost theirs? / final frontier / Perhaps death is proud; more reason to savor life / Evolutionists flock to Darwin-shaped wall stain

The Best American science writing 2000

When doctors make mistakes / Of mice and elephants: a matter of scale / Lord of the flies / The Biotech death of Jesse Gelsinger / Close encounters / Antarctic dreams / Interstellar spaceflight: can we travel to other stars / Journey to the center of my mind / Gray area: thinking with a damaged brain

Close encounters: an artist shows that size affects shape / Analogy as the core of cognition / Revolutionary new insoles combine five forms of pseudoscience / Brilliant light / Lab notes / Furs for evening, but cloth was the stone age standby / A division of worms / Must dog eat dog? / Einstein's Clocks: The place of time / A designer universe?

The best American science writing 2003

The forest primeval / 1491 / The learning curve / A world of their own / The melody lingers on / The world's numerical recipe / Emergent realities in the cosmos / Scientists reach out to distant worlds / Here there be dragons / Notes from a parallel universe / Shadow creatures / You dirty vole / Stalking the American lobster / Fighting chance / The big bloom / Why turn red? / The mosquito's buzz / Got silk / Disorders made to order / An embarrassment of chimpanzees / Common ground / Why buy that theory? / Big trouble in the world of "Big Physics" / Hawking's breakthrough is still an enigma / Stephen Jay Gould: what does it mean to be a radical?