The Best American Science Writing 2010The eleventh edition of the popular annual series that Kirkus Reviews hails as superb brain candy, The Best American Science Writing 2010 is a sterling collection of the most crucial, thought provoking, and engaging science writing of the year. Edited by New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman and series editor Jesse Cohen, The Best American Science Writing 2010 offers provocative looks at the latest scientific

Psychological Pressure: This gripping memoir details the “white torture” and relentless interrogations designed to break a prisoner’s spirit without leaving a physical mark

but he grew up in Mississippi

In December 1945

and the rivers run”

time and eternity

Drawing from more than 250 interviews

content to stand in the shadows

After the death of her parents

“A funny

follow Maxon from the week before the Selection begins through the first day of the competition

and observations of some of its greatest players

Stefan must hunt down the killer