| Description |
xxiii, 318 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The best American series |
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Best American series.
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| Note |
"A Mariner original." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-318) |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2013, including works by such authors as Katherine Bagley, Barbara Kingsolver, Fred Pearce, and Carl Zimmer. |
| Subject |
Science -- Literary collections.
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Nature -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Blum, Deborah, 1954- editor.
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Bagley, Katherine.
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Carr, Nicholas G., 1959-
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Dobbs, David.
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Goldschmidt, Pippa.
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Harmon, Amy.
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Henig, Robin Marantz.
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Jabr, Ferris.
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Johnson, Sarah Stewart.
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King, Barbara, 1956-
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Kingsolver, Barbara.
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Koerth-Baker, Maggie, 1981-
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Kolbert, Elizabeth.
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Lang, Joshua.
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McKenna, Maryn.
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Mnookin, Seth.
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Nobel, Justin.
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Pearce, Fred.
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Powell, Corey S., 1966-
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Scranton, Roy, 1976-
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Sheppard, Kate.
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Sherwonit, Bill, 1950-
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Solnit, Rebecca.
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Treuer, David.
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Wilson, Edward O.
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Zimmer, Carl, 1966-
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| ISBN |
9780544003422 |
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054400342X |
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