| Description |
xxiv, 318 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
The best American series |
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Best American series.
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| Contents |
--Foreword /--by Tim Folger ----Introduction /--by Rebecca Skloot ----Waiting for light /--Jake Abrahamson ----In deep /--Burkhard Bilger ----A question of corvids /--Sheila Webster Boneham ----The health effects of a world without darkness /--Rebecca Boyle ----Spotted hyena /--Alison Hawthorne Deming ----Life, death, and grim routine fill the day at a Liberian ebola clinic /--Sheri Fink ----No risky chances /--Atul Gawande ----Linux for lettuce /--Lisa M. Hamilton ----Down by the river /--Rowan Jacobsen ----The empathy exams : a medical actor writes her own script /--Leslie Jamison ----The deepest dig /--Brooke Jarvis ----Phineas Gage, neuroscience's most famous patient /--Sam Kean ----At risk /--Jourdan Imani Keith ----Desegregating wilderness /--Jourdan Imani Keith ----Into the maelstrom /--Eli Kintisch ----The big kill /--Elizabeth Kolbert ----Digging through the world's oldest graveyard /--Amy Maxmen ----One of a kind /--Seth Mnookin ----A pioneer as elusive as his particle /--Dennis Overbye ----Blood in the sand /--Matthew Power ----Chasing Bayla /--Sarah Schweitzer ----Partial recall /--Michael Specter ----The city and the sea /--Meera Subramanian ----Curious /--Kim Todd ----The aftershocks /--David Wolman ----From billions to none /--Barry Yeoman |
| Summary |
Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2014 |
| Notes |
"A Mariner original." |
| Subject |
Nature -- Literary collections.
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Science -- Literary collections.
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| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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| Author |
Abrahamson, Jake.
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Bilger, Burkhard.
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Boneham, Sheila Webster, 1952-
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Boyle, Rebecca (Rebecca B.)
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Deming, Alison Hawthorne, 1946-
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Fink, Sheri.
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Folger, Tim, editor
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Gawande, Atul.
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Hamilton, Lisa M.
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Jacobsen, Rowan.
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Jamison, Leslie, 1983-
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Jarvis, Brooke, 1981-
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Kean, Sam.
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Keith, Jourdan Imani, 1961-
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Kintisch, Eli, 1977-
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Kolbert, Elizabeth.
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Maxmen, Amy, 1977-
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Mnookin, Seth.
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Overbye, Dennis, 1944-
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Power, Matthew, 1974-2014.
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Schweitzer, Sarah, 1970-
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Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- editor
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Specter, Michael.
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Subramanian, Meera.
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Todd, Kim.
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Wolman, David (Journalist)
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Yeoman, Barry, 1960-
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| LC no. |
bl2015038093 |
| ISBN |
9780544286740 |
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