Research Catalog

Title

The best American science and nature writing 2014 / edited and with an introduction by Deborah Blum ; Tim Folger, series editor.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Blum, Deborah, 1954-
• Bagley, Katherine
• Carr, Nicholas G., 1959-
• Dobbs, David, 1958-
• Goldschmidt, Pippa
• Harmon, Amy
• Henig, Robin Marantz
• Jabr, Ferris, 1987-
• Johnson, Sarah Stewart
• King, Barbara J., 1956-
• Kingsolver, Barbara
• Koerth-Baker, Maggie, 1981-
• Kolbert, Elizabeth
• Lang, Joshua, 1981-
• McKenna, Maryn
• Mnookin, Seth
• Nobel, Justin, 1981-
• Pearce, Fred
• Powell, Corey S., 1966-
• Scranton, Roy, 1976-
• Sheppard, Kate (Kathleen H.)
• Sherwonit, Bill, 1950-
• Solnit, Rebecca
• Treuer, David
• Wilson, Edward O.
• Zimmer, Carl, 1966-

Description

xxiii, 318 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2013, including works by such authors as Katherine Bagley, Barbara Kingsolver, Fred Pearce, and Carl Zimmer.

Series Statement

The best American series

Uniform Title

Best American series.

Subjects

• Literary collections
• Nature > Literary collections
• Science > Literary collections

Genre/Form

Literary collections.

Note

• "A Mariner original."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-318).

Contents

Mixed up / Katherine Bagley -- The great forgetting / Nicholas Carr -- The social life of genes / David Dobbs -- What our telescopes couldn't see / Pippa Goldschmidt -- A race to save the orange by altering its DNA / Amy Harmon -- A life-or-death situation / Robin Marantz Henig -- 23 and you / Virginia Hughes -- Why the brain prefers paper / Ferris Jabr -- O-rings / Sarah Stewart Johnson -- When animals mourn / Barbara J. King -- Where it begins / Barbara Kingsolver -- Danger! This mission to Mars could bore you to death! / Maggie Koerth-Baker -- The lost world / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Awakening / Joshua Lang -- Imagining the post-antibiotics future / Maryn McKenna -- The return of measles / Seth Mnookin -- Ants go marching / Justin Nobel -- TV as birth control / Fred Pearce -- The madness of the planets / Corey S. Powell -- Learning how to die in the Anthropocene / Roy Scranton -- Under water / Kate Sheppard -- Twelve ways of viewing Alaska's wild, white sheep / Bill Sherwonit -- The separating sickness / Rebecca Solnit -- Trapline / David Treuer -- The rebirth of Gorongosa / E.O. Wilson -- Bringing them back to life / Carl Zimmer.

ISBN

• 9780544003422
• 054400342X

OCLC

• ocn891768394
• 891768394
• SCSB-8981961

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries