The best American science and nature writing 2009
| Other Authors: | Kolbert, Elizabeth., Folger, Tim., Barry, Wendell., Broome, John., Carr, Nicholas G., 1959-, Carroll, Chris., Curry, W. A., Davidson, Keay., Fox, Douglas., Frank, Adam, 1962-, Gawande, Atul., Grimm, David., Hall, Stephen S., Halpern, Sue., Isaacson, Walter., Kaufman, Frederick., Morell, Virginia., Nash, J. Madeleine., Phelan, Benjamin., Postrel, Virginia I., 1960-, Quammen, David, 1948-, Roebke, Joshua., Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, Smith, Mark A., Specter, Michael., Symmes, Patrick., Wolf, Gary. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Co.,
2009.
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| Series: |
Best American series.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction /
- Elizabeth Kolbert
- Faustian economics /
- Wendell Barry
- The ethics of climate change /
- John Broome
- Is Google making us stupid? /
- Nicholas Carr
- High-tech trash /
- Chris Carroll
- Intel inside /
- Andrew Curry
- Blown apart /
- Keay Davidson
- Did life begin in ice? /
- Douglas Fox
- The day before Genesis /
- Adam Frank
- The itch /
- Atul Gawande
- The mushroom cloud's silver lining /
- David Grimm
- Last of the Neanderthals /
- Stephen S. Hall
- Virtual Iraq /
- Sue Halpern
- Chain reaction /
- Walter Issacson
- Wasteland /
- Frederick Kaufman
- Minds of their own /
- Virginia Morell
- Back to the future /
- J. Madeleine Nash
- To take wilderness in hand /
- Michelle Nijhuis
- How we evolve /
- Benjamin Phelan
- Pop psychology /
- Virginia Postrel
- Contagious cancer /
- David Quammen
- The reality tests /
- Joshua Roebke
- Darwin and the meaning of flowers /
- Oliver Sacks
- Animalcules and other little objects /
- Mark A. Smith
- Big foot /
- Michael Specter
- Red is the new green /
- Patrick Symmes
- Stayin' Alive /
- Gary Wolf.