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The best American science and nature writing 2010 / edited and with an introducion by Freeman Dyson ; Tim Folger, series editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Best American seriesPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.Description: xxv, 385 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 9780547327846
  • 0547327846
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 500
LOC classification:
  • Q 1 B561 2010
Contents:
The believer / Andrew Corsello -- One giant leap to nowhere / Tom Wolfe -- The missions of astronomy / Steven Weinberg -- Cosmic vision / Timothy Ferris -- Seeking new Earths / Timothy Ferris -- Don't! / Jonah Lehrer -- Out of the past / Kathleen McGowan -- Brain games / John Colapinto -- The alpha accipiter / Gustave Axelson -- Flight of the Kuaka / Don Stap -- Modern Darwins / Matt Ridley -- The superior civilization / Tim Flannery -- Still blue / Kenneth Brower -- The Lazarus effect / Jane Goodall -- Darwin's first clues / David Quammen -- All you can eat / Jim Carrier -- A formula for disaster / Felix Salmon -- Not so silent spring / Dawn Stover -- The Catastrophist / Elizabeth Kolbert -- The sixth extinction? Elizabeth Kolbert -- Scraping bottom / Robert Kunzig -- A life of its own / Michael Specter -- Purpose driven life / Brian Boyd -- The monkey and the fish / Philip Gourevitch -- Graze anatomy / Richard Maning -- Hearth surgery / Burkhard Bilger -- Green Giant / Evan Osnos -- India, enlightened / Georgia Black.
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"ISSN 1530-1508"

"A Mariner original"--T.p.

The believer / Andrew Corsello -- One giant leap to nowhere / Tom Wolfe -- The missions of astronomy / Steven Weinberg -- Cosmic vision / Timothy Ferris -- Seeking new Earths / Timothy Ferris -- Don't! / Jonah Lehrer -- Out of the past / Kathleen McGowan -- Brain games / John Colapinto -- The alpha accipiter / Gustave Axelson -- Flight of the Kuaka / Don Stap -- Modern Darwins / Matt Ridley -- The superior civilization / Tim Flannery -- Still blue / Kenneth Brower -- The Lazarus effect / Jane Goodall -- Darwin's first clues / David Quammen -- All you can eat / Jim Carrier -- A formula for disaster / Felix Salmon -- Not so silent spring / Dawn Stover -- The Catastrophist / Elizabeth Kolbert -- The sixth extinction? Elizabeth Kolbert -- Scraping bottom / Robert Kunzig -- A life of its own / Michael Specter -- Purpose driven life / Brian Boyd -- The monkey and the fish / Philip Gourevitch -- Graze anatomy / Richard Maning -- Hearth surgery / Burkhard Bilger -- Green Giant / Evan Osnos -- India, enlightened / Georgia Black.

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