The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015
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"A Mariner original."
Foreword / by Tim Folger -- Introduction / by Rebecca Skloot -- Waiting for light / Jake Abrahamson -- In deep / Burkhard Bilger -- A question of corvids / Sheila Webster Boneham -- The health effects of a world without darkness / Rebecca Boyle -- Spotted hyena / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Life, death, and grim routine fill the day at a Liberian ebola clinic / Sheri Fink -- No risky chances / Atul Gawande -- Linux for lettuce / Lisa M. Hamilton -- Down by the river / Rowan Jacobsen -- The empathy exams : a medical actor writes her own script / Leslie Jamison -- The deepest dig / Brooke Jarvis -- Phineas Gage, neuroscience's most famous patient / Sam Kean -- At risk / Jourdan Imani Keith -- Desegregating wilderness / Jourdan Imani Keith -- Into the maelstrom / Eli Kintisch -- The big kill / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Digging through the world's oldest graveyard / Amy Maxmen -- One of a kind / Seth Mnookin -- A pioneer as elusive as his particle / Dennis Overbye -- Blood in the sand / Matthew Power -- Chasing Bayla / Sarah Schweitzer -- Partial recall / Michael Specter -- The city and the sea / Meera Subramanian -- Curious / Kim Todd -- The aftershocks / David Wolman -- From billions to none / Barry Yeoman.
Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2014.
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Best American series.
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: xxiv, 318 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
054428674X
9780544286740
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Folger, Tim,
Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
Abrahamson, Jake.
Bilger, Burkhard.
Boneham, Sheila Webster, 1952-
Boyle, Rebecca.
Deming, Alison Hawthorne, 1946-
Fink, Sheri.
Gawande, Atul.
Hamilton, Lisa M.
Jacobsen, Rowan.
Jamison, Leslie.
Jarvis, Brooke.
Kean, Sam.
Keith, Jourdan Imani.
Kintisch, Eli, 1977-
Kolbert, Elizabeth.
Maxmen, Amy.
Mnookin, Seth.
Overbye, Dennis, 1944-
Power, Matthew, 1974-2014.
Schweitzer, Sarah.
Specter, Michael.
Subramanian, Meera.
Todd, Kim.
Wolman, David (Journalist)
Yeoman, Barry.
SUBJECTS
Science -- Literary collections.
Nature -- Literary collections.