| Description |
xx, 324 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The best American series |
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Best American series.
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| Note |
"A Mariner original." |
| Contents |
The art of saving relics / Sarah Everts -- Altered tastes / Maria Konnikova -- The secrets of the wave pilots / Kim Tingley -- The billion-year wave / Nicola Twilley -- The case for leaving city rats alone / Becca Cudmore -- The battle for Virunga / Robert Draper -- The new harpoon / Tom Kizzia -- A song of ice / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Something uneasy in the Los Angeles air / Adrian Glick Kudler -- Dark science / Omar Mouallem -- The parks of tomorrow / Michelle Nijhuis -- How factory farms play chicken with antibiotics / Tom Philpott -- The invisible catastrophe / Nathaniel Rich -- The devil is in the details / Christopher Solomon -- The physics pioneer who walked away from it all / Sally Davies -- The DIY scientist, the Olympian, and the mutated gene / David Epstein -- Inside the breakthrough starshot mission to Alpha Centauri / Ann Finkbeiner -- He fell in love with his good student-- Then fired her for it / Azeen Ghorayshi -- The woman who might find us another Earth / Chris Jones -- Out here, no one can hear you scream / Katrhryn Joyce -- The amateur cloud society that (sort of) rattled the scientific community / Jon Mooallem -- The man who gave himself away / Michael Regnier -- Unfriendly climate / Sonia Smith -- It's time these ancient women scientists get their due / Emily Temple-Wood. |
| Summary |
Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in the previous year, including works by such authors as Sarah Everts, Nathaniel Rich, and Kathryn Joyce. |
| Subject |
Science -- Literary collections.
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Nature -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Jahren, Hope, editor.
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Folger, Tim, editor.
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Everts, Sarah.
Art of saving relics.
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Konnikova, Maria.
Altered tastes.
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Tingley, Kim.
Secrets of the wave pilots.
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Twilley, Nicola.
Billion-year wave.
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Cudmore, Becca.
Case for leaving city rats alone.
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Draper, Robert.
Battle for Virunga.
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Kizzia, Tom.
New harpoon.
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Kolbert, Elizabeth.
Song of ice.
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Kudler, Adrian Glick.
Something uneasy in the Los Angeles air.
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Mouallem, Omar, 1985-
Dark science.
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| ISBN |
9781328715517 |
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1328715515 |
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