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The best American science and nature writing 2007 / edited and with an introduction by Richard Preston ; Tim Folger, series editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Best American seriesPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2007.Description: xxii, 300 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0618722319
  • 9780618722310
Other title:
  • American science and nature writing 2007
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 500
LOC classification:
  • Q 1 B561 2007
Contents:
In Rome's basement / Paul Bennett -- Plastic ocean / Susan Casey -- For the love of lemurs / Richard Conniff -- Rabbit on Mars / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Fishering / Brian Doyle -- Dinosaur shocker! / Helen Fields -- Cooking for eggheads / Patricia Gadsby -- Cyber-neologoliferation / James Gleick -- Final frontier / John Horgan -- How to get a nuclear bomb / William Langewiesche -- Effeminate sheep / Jonah Lehrer -- Let there be light / Michael D. Lemonick -- Nature of violence / Jeffrey A. Lockwood -- Germs of life / Lynn Margulis and Emily Case -- Neanderthal Man / Steve Olson -- Health secrets from the morgue / Michael Perry -- Hitler's willing archaeologists / Heather Pringle -- Sex, lies, and video games / Jonathan Rauch -- Flu hunter / Michael Rosenwald -- Notes on the space we take / Bonnie J. Rough -- Olfactory lives of primates / Robert M. Sapolsky -- Ruffled feathers / John Seabrook -- In the company of bears / Bill Sherwonit -- Rape of Appalachia / Michael Shnayerson -- First soldier of the gene wars / Meredith F. Small -- Plan to keep carbon in check / Robert H. Socolow and Stephen W. Pacala -- Delusions of space enthusiasts / Neil DeGrasse Tyson -- DNA is not destiny / Ethan Watters -- Contributors' notes -- Other notable science and nature writing of 2006.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) Q 1 B561 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000079283

In Rome's basement / Paul Bennett -- Plastic ocean / Susan Casey -- For the love of lemurs / Richard Conniff -- Rabbit on Mars / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Fishering / Brian Doyle -- Dinosaur shocker! / Helen Fields -- Cooking for eggheads / Patricia Gadsby -- Cyber-neologoliferation / James Gleick -- Final frontier / John Horgan -- How to get a nuclear bomb / William Langewiesche -- Effeminate sheep / Jonah Lehrer -- Let there be light / Michael D. Lemonick -- Nature of violence / Jeffrey A. Lockwood -- Germs of life / Lynn Margulis and Emily Case -- Neanderthal Man / Steve Olson -- Health secrets from the morgue / Michael Perry -- Hitler's willing archaeologists / Heather Pringle -- Sex, lies, and video games / Jonathan Rauch -- Flu hunter / Michael Rosenwald -- Notes on the space we take / Bonnie J. Rough -- Olfactory lives of primates / Robert M. Sapolsky -- Ruffled feathers / John Seabrook -- In the company of bears / Bill Sherwonit -- Rape of Appalachia / Michael Shnayerson -- First soldier of the gene wars / Meredith F. Small -- Plan to keep carbon in check / Robert H. Socolow and Stephen W. Pacala -- Delusions of space enthusiasts / Neil DeGrasse Tyson -- DNA is not destiny / Ethan Watters -- Contributors' notes -- Other notable science and nature writing of 2006.

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