The best American science and nature writing 2008 / by edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Kolbert ; Tim Folger, series editor.
Material type: TextSeries: Best American seriesPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008Description: xx, 330 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780618834471 (pbk)Subject(s): Science | Nature | Natural history | Technical writingDDC classification: 500Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | Namal Library General Sciences | 500 GRO-B 2008 8347 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 0008347 |
"A Mariner original."
Foreword -- Introduction / by Elizabeth Kolbert -- Faustian economics / Wendell Berry -- The ethics of climate change / John Broome -- Is Google making us stupid? / Nicholas Carr -- High-tech trash / Chris Carroll -- Intel inside / Andrew Curry -- Blown apart / Keay Davidson -- Did life begin in ice? / Douglas Fox -- The day before Genesis / Adam Frank -- The itch / Atul Gawande -- The mushroom cloud's silver lining / David Grimm -- Last of the Neanderthals / Stephen S. Hall -- Virtual Iraq / Sue Halpern -- Chain reaction / Walter Issacson -- Wasteland / Frederick Kaufman -- Minds of their own / Virginia Morell -- Back to the future / J. Madeleine Nash -- To take wilderness in hand / Michelle Nijhuis -- How we evolve / Benjamin Phelan -- Pop psychology / Virginia Postrel -- Contagious cancer / David Quammen -- The reality tests / Joshua Roebke -- Darwin and the meaning of flowers / Oliver Sacks -- Animalcules and other little subjects / Mark A. Smith -- Big foot / Michael Specter -- Red is the new green / Patrick Symmes -- Stayin' Alive / Gary Wolf.
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