Description |
xxiii, 318 pages ; 21 cm |
Series |
The best American series |
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Best American series.
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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.
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Science -- Literary collections.
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Genre/Form |
Literature.
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Author |
Bagley, Katherine, author
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Blum, Deborah, 1954- editor
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Carr, Nicholas G., 1959- author
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Dobbs, David, 1958- author
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Goldschmidt, Pippa, author
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Harmon, Amy, author
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Henig, Robin Marantz, author
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Jabr, Ferris, 1987- author
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Johnson, Sarah Stewart, author
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King, Barbara J., 1956- author
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Kingsolver, Barbara, author
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Koerth-Baker, Maggie, 1981- author
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Kolbert, Elizabeth, author
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Lang, Joshua, 1981- author
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McKenna, Maryn, author
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Mnookin, Seth, author
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Nobel, Justin, 1981- author
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Pearce, Fred, author
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Powell, Corey S., 1966- author
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Scranton, Roy, 1976- author
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Sheppard, Kate (Kathleen H.), author
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Sherwonit, Bill, 1950- author
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Solnit, Rebecca, author
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Treuer, David, author
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Wilson, Edward O., author
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Zimmer, Carl, 1966- author
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LC no. |
2014042272 |
ISBN |
054400342X |
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9780544003422 |
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