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The best American science and nature writing 2008
- Title
- The best American science and nature writing 2008 / edited and with an introduction by Jerome Groopman.
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Groopman, Jerome E.
- Description
- xx, 330 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Jerome Groopman selects twenty-four works of American science and nature writing as the best of the genre from the year 2007, including pieces by John Colapinto, Oliver Sacks, Jeffrey Toobin, and others.
- Series Statement
- The best American series, 1530-1508
- Uniform Title
- Best American series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Popular works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Zonkeys are pretty much my favorite animal / Jon Cohen -- The interpreter / John Colapinto -- The universe's invisible hand / Christopher J. Conselice -- Untangling the mystery of the Inca / Gareth Cook -- Restoring America's big, wild animals / C. Josh Donlan -- Our biotech future / Freeman Dyson -- The coming robot army / Steve Featherstone -- Malaria: stopping a global killer / Michael Finkel -- The first assassination of the twenty-first century / James Geary -- Our silver-coated future / Robin Marantz Henig -- Children are diamonds / Edward Hoagland -- The selfless gene / Olivia Judson -- The autumn of the multitaskers / Walter Kirn -- First churches of the Jesus cult / Andrew Lawler -- A curious attractions / Jon Mooallem -- Swingers / Ian Parker -- Science and Islam in conflict / Todd Pitock -- Deadly contact / David Quammen -- How to trick an online scammer into carving a computer out of wood / Ron Rosenbaum -- A bolt from the blue / Oliver Sacks -- Darwin's surprise / Michael Specter -- The CSI effect / Jeffrey Toobin -- Numbers can lie / Andreas von Bubnoff -- A mighty wind / Florence Williams.
- ISBN
- 9780618834471
- 0618834478
- 9780618834464
- 061883446X
- OCLC
- ocn259760781
- 259760781
- SCSB-8985569
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries