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1 online resource. |
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| Series |
Best American Science and Nature Writing
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| Contents |
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 / 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 |
"Undeniably exquisite . . . The essays in the collection [are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity."--Maria Popova, author of the blog Brain Pickings "An excellent introduction to the key issues in science today."--P. D. Smith, GuardianBest-selling author Rebecca Skloot selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines. |
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Subject |
American essays -- 21st century.
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Science -- Literary collections.
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Nature -- Literary collections.
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American essays. |
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Nature. |
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Science. |
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Electronic books. |
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Literary collections.
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Electronic books.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9780544286757 : $14.95 |
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0544286758 : $14.95 |
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