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Title:

The best American science and nature writing 2010 / edited with an introducion by Freeman Dyson ; Tim Folger, series editor.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xxv, 385 p. ; 18 cm.

Subject:

American essays.

Other Authors:

Dyson, Freeman J. author of introduction, etc. author of introduction, etc.
Folger, Tim, editor.

Notes:

"ISSN 1530-1508" "A Mariner original"--T.p. verso

Contents:

The India, enlightened / Georgia Black. One giant leap to nowhere / Tom Wolfe -- The missions of astronomy / Steven Weinberg -- Cosmic vision / Timothy Ferris -- Don't! / Jonah Lehrer -- Out of the past / Kathleen McGowan -- Brain games / John Colapinto -- The alpha accipiter / Gustave Axelson -- Flight of the Kuaka / Don Stap -- Modern Darwins / Matt Ridley -- The superior civilization / Tim Flannery -- Still blue / Kenneth Brower -- The Lazarus effect / Jane Goodall -- Darwin's first clues / David Quammen -- All you can eat / Jim Carrier -- A formula for disaster / Felix Salmon -- Not so silent spring / Dawn Stover -- The Catastrophist / Elizabeth Kolbert -- The sixth extinction Elizabeth Kolbert -- Scraping bottom / Robert Kunzig -- A life of its own / Michael Specter -- Purpose driven life / Brian Boyd -- The monkey and the fish / Philip Gourevitch -- Graze anatomy / Richard Maning -- Hearth surgery / Burkhard Bilger -- Green Giant / Evan Osnos -- India, enlightened / Georgia Black.

Series:

Best American series

ISBN:

0547327846
9780547327846

OCLC:

(OCoLC)505420761

Locations:

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)