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Title:

The best American science and nature writing 2007 / edited and with an introduction by Richard Preston ; Tim Folger, series editor.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xxii, 300 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Natural history.
Nature.
Science.
Natural history literature--United States.
Scientific literature--United States.

Other Authors:

Preston, Richard, 1954-
Folger, Tim.

Contents:

Other notable science and nature writing of 2006. Ethan Watters -- Plastic ocean / Susan Casey -- For the love of lemurs / Richard Conniff -- Rabbit on Mars / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Fishering / Brian Doyle -- Dinosaur shocker! / Helen Fields -- Cooking for eggheads / Patricia Gadsby -- Cyber-neologoliferation / James Gleick -- Final frontier / John Horgan -- How to get a nuclear bomb / William Langewiesche -- Effeminate sheep / Jonah Lehrer -- Let there be light / Michael D. Lemonick -- Nature of violence / Jeffrey A. Lockwood -- Germs of life / Lynn Margulis and Emily Case -- Neanderthal Man / Steve Olson -- Health secrets from the morgue / Michael Perry -- Hitler's willing archaeologists / Heather Pringle -- Sex, lies, and video games / Jonathan Rauch -- Flu hunter / Michael Rosenwald -- Notes on the space we take / Bonnie J. Rough -- Olfactory lives of primates / Robert M. Sapolsky -- Ruffled feathers / John Seabrook -- In the company of bears / Bill Sherwonit -- Rape of Appalachia / Michael Shnayerson -- First soldier of the gene wars / Meredith F. Small -- Plan to keep carbon in check / Robert H. Socolow and Stephen W. Pacala -- Delusions of space enthusiasts / Neil DeGrasse Tyson -- DNA is not destiny / Ethan Watters -- Contributors' notes -- Other notable science and nature writing of 2006.

Series:

The Best American series

ISBN:

9780618722310
0618722319

Locations:

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)