Bibliograph

The best American science and nature writing 2015, edited and with an introduction by Rebecca Skloot ; Tim Folger, series editor

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The best American science and nature writing 2015, edited and with an introduction by Rebecca Skloot ; Tim Folger, series editor

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The best American science and nature writing 2015

Oclc number

898052719

Responsibility statement

edited and with an introduction by Rebecca Skloot ; Tim Folger, series editor

Series statement

The best American series

Summary

Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2014

Table Of Contents

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

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