The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009
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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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Best American series.
PUBLISHED
Boston, MA : Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: xxii, 328 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780547002590
0547002599
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Kolbert, Elizabeth.
Folger, Tim.
Barry, Wendell.
Broome, John.
Carr, Nicholas.
Carroll, Chris.
Curry, Andrew.
Davidson, Keay.
Fox, Douglas.
Frank, Adam.
Gawande, Atul.
Grimm, David.
Hall, Stephen S.
Halpern, Sue.
Isaacson, Walter.
Kaufman, Frederick.
Morell, Virginia.
Nash, J. Madeleine.
Phelan, Benjamin.
Postrel, Virginia.
Quammen, David.
Roebke, Joshua.
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
Smith, Mark A.
Specter, Michael.
Symmes, Patrick.
Wolf, Gary.
SUBJECTS
Science.
Nature.
Natural history.
Technical writing.