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The best American science and nature writing 2013
- Title
- The best American science and nature writing 2013 / edited and with an introduction by Siddhartha Mukherjee ; Tim Folger, series editor.
- Author
- Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
- Publication
- Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
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- Additional Authors
- Mukherjee, Siddhartha
- Folger, Tim
- MacKinnon, J. B.
- Hale, Benjamin.
- Zimmermann, Tim.
- Deutsch, David.
- Ekert, Arthur.
- Moyer, Michael.
- Earle, Sylvia A.
- Pavlus, John.
- Nijhuis, Michelle.
- Bass, Rick.
- Forrest, Brett.
- Groopman, Jerome.
- Owen, David.
- Specter, Michael.
- Lightman, Alan.
- Quammen, David.
- Kolbert, Elizabeth.
- Gessen, Keith.
- Weinberg, Steven.
- Cook, Gareth.
- Angier, Natalie.
- Sapolsky, Robert M.
- Harmon, Kitty.
- Rich, Nathaniel.
- Marche, Stephen.
- Bowden, Mark.
- Dutton, Kevin.
- Description
- xxi, 339 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Presents fictional and non-fictional stories written by American authors that discuss topics in science and nature.
- Series Statement
- Best American series
- Uniform Title
- Best American series.
- Subject
- Note
- "A Mariner original."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-339).
- Contents
- Foreword / Tom Fogler -- Introduction: On tenderness / Siddhartha Mukherjee -- False idyll from Orion / J.B. MacKinnon -- The last distinction from Harper's magazine / Benjamin Hale -- Talk to me from Outside / Tim Zimmerman -- Beyond the quantum horizon from Scientific American / David Deutsch and Artur Ekert -- Is space digital? from Scientific American / Michael Moyer -- The sweet spot in time from Virginia quarterly review / Sylvia A. Earle -- Machines of the infinite from Scientific American / John Pavlus -- Which species will live? from Scientific American / Michelle Nijhuis -- The larch g from Orion / Rick Bass -- Shattered genius from Playboy / Brett Forrest -- The T-cell army from New Yorker / Jerome Groopman -- The artificial leaf from New Yorker / David Owen -- The deadliest virus from New Yorker / Michael Specter -- Our place in the universe from Harper's magazine / Alan Lightman -- Out of the wild from Popular science / David Quammen -- Altered states from New Yorker / Oliver Sachs -- Recall of the wild from New Yorker / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Polar express from New Yorker / Keith Gessen -- The crisis of big science from New York review of books / Steven Weinberg -- Autism inc. from New York times magazine / Gareth Cook -- The life of pi and other infinities from New York times / Natalie Angier -- Super humanity from Scientific American/ Robert M. Sapolsky -- The patient scientist from Scientific American / Katherine Harmon -- Can a jellyfish unlock the secret of immortality? from New York times magazine / Nathaniel Rich -- Is Facebook making us lonely? from Atlantic / Stephen Marche -- The measured man from Atlantic / Mark Bowden -- The wisdom of psychpaths from Scientific American / Kevin Dutton -- Contributors' notes -- Other notable science and nature writing of 2012.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-2912
- ISBN
- 9780544003439
- 0544003438
- OCLC
- 859800412
- Author
- Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
- Title
- The best American science and nature writing 2013 / edited and with an introduction by Siddhartha Mukherjee ; Tim Folger, series editor.
- Imprint
- Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Best American seriesBest American series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-339).
- Added Author
- Mukherjee, Siddhartha, editor.Folger, Tim, series editor.MacKinnon, J. B.Hale, Benjamin.Zimmermann, Tim.Deutsch, David.Ekert, Arthur.Moyer, Michael.Earle, Sylvia A.Pavlus, John.Nijhuis, Michelle.Bass, Rick.Forrest, Brett.Groopman, Jerome.Owen, David.Specter, Michael.Lightman, Alan.Quammen, David.Kolbert, Elizabeth.Gessen, Keith.Weinberg, Steven.Cook, Gareth.Angier, Natalie.Sapolsky, Robert M.Harmon, Kitty.Rich, Nathaniel.Marche, Stephen.Bowden, Mark.Dutton, Kevin.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-2912