The best American science and nature writing 2015 / edited and with an introduction by Rebecca Skloot ; Tim Folger, series editor
Contributor(s): Folger, Tim [editor] | Skloot, Rebecca [editor] | Abrahamson, Jake | Bilger, Burkhard | Boneham, Sheila Webster | Boyle, Rebecca | Deming, Alison Hawthorne | Fink, Sheri | Gawande, Atul | Hamilton, Lisa M | Jacobsen, Rowan | Jamison, Leslie | Jarvis, Brooke | Kean, Sam | Keith, Jourdan Imani | Kintisch, Eli | Kolbert, Elizabeth | Maxmen, Amy | Mnookin, Seth | Overbye, Dennis | Power, Matthew | Schweitzer, Sarah | Specter, Michael | Subramanian, Meera | Todd, Kim | Wolman, David (Journalist) | Yeoman, Barry.
Series: Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: xxiv, 318 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780544286740.Subject(s): Science -- Literary collections | Nature -- Literary collectionsGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | PN6071.S3 B46 2015 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000007696 |
"A Mariner original."
Foreword / by Tim Folger -- Introduction / by Rebecca Skloot -- Waiting for light / Jake Abrahamson -- In deep / Burkhard Bilger -- A question of corvids / Sheila Webster Boneham -- The health effects of a world without darkness / Rebecca Boyle -- Spotted hyena / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Life, death, and grim routine fill the day at a Liberian ebola clinic / Sheri Fink -- No risky chances / Atul Gawande -- Linux for lettuce / Lisa M. Hamilton -- Down by the river / Rowan Jacobsen -- The empathy exams : a medical actor writes her own script / Leslie Jamison -- The deepest dig / Brooke Jarvis -- Phineas Gage, neuroscience's most famous patient / Sam Kean -- At risk / Jourdan Imani Keith -- Desegregating wilderness / Jourdan Imani Keith -- Into the maelstrom / Eli Kintisch -- The big kill / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Digging through the world's oldest graveyard / Amy Maxmen -- One of a kind / Seth Mnookin -- A pioneer as elusive as his particle / Dennis Overbye -- Blood in the sand / Matthew Power -- Chasing Bayla / Sarah Schweitzer -- Partial recall / Michael Specter -- The city and the sea / Meera Subramanian -- Curious / Kim Todd -- The aftershocks / David Wolman -- From billions to none / Barry Yeoman
Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2014