| Description |
xx, 330 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
The best American series, 1530-1508 |
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Best American series. 1530-1508
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| Contents |
Zonkeys are pretty much my favorite animal / Jon Cohen -- The interpreter / John Colapinto -- The universe's invisible hand / Christopher J. Conselice -- Untangling the mystery of the Inca / Gareth Cook -- Restoring America's big, wild animals / Josh Donlan -- Our biotech future / Freeman Dyson -- The coming robot army / Steve Featherstone -- Malaria: stopping a global killer / Michael Finkel -- The first assassination of the twenty-first century / James Geary -- Our silver-coated future / Robin Marantz Henig -- Children are diamonds / Edward Hoagland -- The selfless gene / Olivia Judson -- The autumn of the multitaskers / Walter Kirn -- First churches of the Jesus cult / Andrew Lawler -- A curious attraction / Jon Mooallem -- Swingers / Ian Parker -- Science and Islam in conflict / Todd Pitock -- Deadly contact / David Quammen -- How to trick an online scammer into carving a computer out of wood / Ron Rosenbaum -- A bolt from the blue / Oliver Sacks -- Darwin's surprise / Michael Specter -- The CSI effect / Jeffrey Toobin -- Numbers can lie / Andreas Von Bubnoff -- A mighty wind / Florence Williams. |
| Subject |
Science.
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Nature.
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Natural history.
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Technical writing.
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| Added Author |
Groopman, Jerome E.
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Folger, Tim.
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| ISBN |
9780618834464 |
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061883446X |
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