| Description |
xxv, 385 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
Best American series |
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Best American series.
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| Note |
"ISSN 1530-1508" |
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"A Mariner original"--T.p. verso |
| Contents |
The believer / Andrew Corsello -- One giant leap to nowhere / Tom Wolfe -- The missions of astronomy / Steven Weinberg -- Cosmic vision / Timothy Ferris -- Don't! / Jonah Lehrer -- Out of the past / Kathleen McGowan -- Brain games / John Colapinto -- The alpha accipiter / Gustave Axelson -- Flight of the Kuaka / Don Stap -- Modern Darwins / Matt Ridley -- The superior civilization / Tim Flannery -- Still blue / Kenneth Brower -- The Lazarus effect / Jane Goodall -- Darwin's first clues / David Quammen -- All you can eat / Jim Carrier -- A formula for disaster / Felix Salmon -- Not so silent spring / Dawn Stover -- The Catastrophist / Elizabeth Kolbert -- The sixth extinction Elizabeth Kolbert -- Scraping bottom / Robert Kunzig -- A life of its own / Michael Specter -- Purpose driven life / Brian Boyd -- The monkey and the fish / Philip Gourevitch -- Graze anatomy / Richard Maning -- Hearth surgery / Burkhard Bilger -- Green Giant / Evan Osnos -- India, enlightened / Georgia Black. |
| Subject |
American essays.
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| Added Author |
Dyson, Freeman J., editor, author of introduction, etc.
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Folger, Tim, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780547327846 |
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0547327846 |
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