| Description |
xxi, 339 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Best American series |
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Best American series.
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| Note |
"A Mariner original." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-339). |
| Contents |
Foreword / Tom Fogler -- Introduction: On tenderness / Siddhartha Mukherjee -- False idyll from Orion / J.B. MacKinnon -- The last distinction from Harper's / Benjamin Hale -- Talk to me from Outside / Tim Zimmerman -- Beyond the quantum horizon from Scientific American / David Deutsch and Artur Ekert -- Is space digital? from Scientific American / Michael Moyer -- The sweet spot in time from Virginia quarterly review / Sylvia A. Earle -- Machines of the infinite from Scientific American / John Pavlus -- Which species will live? from Scientific American / Michelle Nijhuis -- The larch g from Orion / Rick Bass -- Shattered genius from Playboy / Brett Forrest -- The T-cell army from New Yorker / Jerome Groopman -- The artificial leaf from New Yorker / David Owen -- The deadliest virus from New Yorker / Michael Specter -- Our place in the universe from Harper's / Alan Lightman -- Out of the wild from Popular science / David Quammen -- Altered states from New Yorker / Oliver Sachs -- Recall of the wild from New Yorker / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Polar express from New Yorker / Keith Gessen -- The crisis of big science from New York review of books / Steven Weinberg -- Autism inc. from NY times magazine / Gareth Cook -- The life of pi and other infinities from New York times / Natalie Angier -- Super humanity from Scientific American/ Robert M. Sapolsky -- The patient scientist from Scientific American / Katherine Harmon -- Can a jellyfish unlock the secret of immortality? from NY times magazine / Nathaniel Rich -- Is Facebook making us lonely? from Atlantic / Stephen Marche -- The measured man from Atlantic / Mark Bowden -- The wisdom of psychpaths from Scientific American / Kevin Dutton -- Contributors' notes -- Other notable science and nature writing of 2012. |
| Summary |
Presents fictional and non-fictional stories written by American authors that discuss topics in science and nature. |
| Subject |
Science -- Literary collections.
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Nature -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Mukherjee, Siddhartha, editor of compilation.
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Folger, Tim, series editor.
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MacKinnon, J. B. (James Bernard), 1970-
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Hale, Benjamin.
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Zimmermann, Tim.
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Deutsch, David.
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Ekert, Arthur.
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Moyer, Michael, -1834.
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Earle, Sylvia A., 1935-
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Pavlus, John.
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Nijhuis, Michelle.
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Bass, Rick, 1958-
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Forrest, Brett.
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Groopman, Jerome.
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Owen, David.
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Specter, Michael.
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Lightman, Alan.
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Quammen, David, 1948-
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Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
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Kolbert, Elizabeth.
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Gessen, Keith.
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Weinberg, Steven.
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Cook, Gareth, 1969-
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Angier, Natalie.
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Sapolsky, Robert M.
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Harmon, Kitty.
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Rich, Nathaniel.
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Marche, Stephen.
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Bowden, Mark.
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Dutton, Kevin.
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| ISBN |
9780544003439 |
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0544003438 |
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