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Title The best American science and nature writing 2014 / edited and with an introduction by Deborah Blum ; Tim Folger, series editor
Published Boston Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014

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 MELB  502 Bas/Anw 2014  AVAILABLE
Description xxiii, 318 pages ; 21 cm
Series The best American series
Best American series.
Contents --Mixed up /--Katherine Bagley ----The great forgetting /--Nicholas Carr ----The social life of genes /--David Dobbs ----What our telescopes couldn't see /--Pippa Goldschmidt ----A race to save the orange by altering its DNA /--Amy Harmon ----A life-or-death situation /--Robin Marantz Henig ----23 and you /--Virginia Hughes ----Why the brain perfers paper /--Ferris Jabr ----O-rings /--Sarah Stewart Johnson ----When animals mourn /--Barbara J. King ----Where it begins /--Barbara Kingsolver ----Danger! This mission to Mars could bore you to death! /--Maggie Koerth-Baker ----The lost world /--Elizabeth Kolbert ----Awakening /--Joshua Lang ----Imagining the post-antibiotics future /--Maryn McKenna ----The return of measles /--Seth Mnookin ----Ants go marching /--Justin Nobel ----TV as birth control /--Fred Pearce ----The madness of the planets /--Corey S. Powell ----Learning how to die in the Anthropocene /--Roy Scranton ----Under water /--Kate Sheppard ----Twelve ways of viewing Alaska's wild, white sheep /--Bill Sherwonit ----The separating sickness /--Rebecca Solnit ----Trapline /--David Treuer ----The rebirth of Gorongosa /--E.O. Wilson ----Bringing them back to life /--Carl Zimmer
Notes "A Mariner original."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-318)
Subject Nature -- Literary collections.
Science -- Literary collections.
Genre/Form Literature.
Author Bagley, Katherine, author
Blum, Deborah, 1954- editor
Carr, Nicholas G., 1959- author
Dobbs, David, 1958- author
Goldschmidt, Pippa, author
Harmon, Amy, author
Henig, Robin Marantz, author
Jabr, Ferris, 1987- author
Johnson, Sarah Stewart, author
King, Barbara J., 1956- author
Kingsolver, Barbara, author
Koerth-Baker, Maggie, 1981- author
Kolbert, Elizabeth, author
Lang, Joshua, 1981- author
McKenna, Maryn, author
Mnookin, Seth, author
Nobel, Justin, 1981- author
Pearce, Fred, author
Powell, Corey S., 1966- author
Scranton, Roy, 1976- author
Sheppard, Kate (Kathleen H.), author
Sherwonit, Bill, 1950- author
Solnit, Rebecca, author
Treuer, David, author
Wilson, Edward O., author
Zimmer, Carl, 1966- author
LC no. 2014042272
ISBN 054400342X
9780544003422