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The best American science and nature writing 2009

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Other Authors: Kolbert, Elizabeth, Folger, Tim, Barry, Wendell, Broome, John, Carr, Nicholas G., 1959-, Carroll, Chris, Curry, W. A. (Walter Andrew), 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
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2009.
Series:Best American series.
Subjects:
Science.
Nature.
Natural history.
Technical writing.
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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.

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