| Description |
xxii, 300 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The Best American series |
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Best American series.
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| Contents |
In Rome's basement / Paul Bennett -- Plastic ocean / Susan Casey -- For the love of lemurs / Richard Conniff -- Rabbit on Mars / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Fishering / Brian Doyle -- Dinosaur shocker! / Helen Fields -- Cooking for eggheads / Patricia Gadsby -- Cyber-neologoliferation / James Gleick -- Final frontier / John Horgan -- How to get a nuclear bomb / William Langewiesche -- Effeminate sheep / Jonah Lehrer -- Let there be light / Michael D. Lemonick -- Nature of violence / Jeffrey A. Lockwood -- Germs of life / Lynn Margulis and Emily Case -- Neanderthal Man / Steve Olson -- Health secrets from the morgue / Michael Perry -- Hitler's willing archaeologists / Heather Pringle -- Sex, lies, and video games / Jonathan Rauch -- Flu hunter / Michael Rosenwald -- Notes on the space we take / Bonnie J. Rough -- Olfactory lives of primates / Robert M. Sapolsky -- Ruffled feathers / John Seabrook -- In the company of bears / Bill Sherwonit -- Rape of Appalachia / Michael Shnayerson -- First soldier of the gene wars / Meredith F. Small -- Plan to keep carbon in check / Robert H. Socolow and Stephen W. Pacala -- Delusions of space enthusiasts / Neil DeGrasse Tyson -- DNA is not destiny / Ethan Watters -- Contributors' notes -- Other notable science and nature writing of 2006. |
| Subject |
Natural history.
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Nature.
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Science.
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Natural history literature -- United States.
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Scientific literature -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Preston, Richard, 1954-
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Folger, Tim.
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| Added Title |
American science and nature writing 2007 |
| ISBN |
0618722319 |
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9780618722310 |
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