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

Format Book
PublicationBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Copyright Date©2015
Descriptionxxiv, 318 pages ; 21 cm.
Subjects
Science--Literary collections.
Nature--Literary collections.

Other author/creatorFolger, Tim, editor.
Other author/creatorSkloot, Rebecca, 1972- editor.
Other author/creatorAbrahamson, Jake.
Other author/creatorBilger, Burkhard.
Other author/creatorBoneham, Sheila Webster, 1952-
Other author/creatorBoyle, Rebecca.
Other author/creatorDeming, Alison Hawthorne, 1946-
Other author/creatorFink, Sheri.
Other author/creatorGawande, Atul.
Other author/creatorHamilton, Lisa M.
Other author/creatorJacobsen, Rowan.
Other author/creatorJamison, Leslie.
Other author/creatorJarvis, Brooke.
Other author/creatorKean, Sam.
Other author/creatorKeith, Jourdan Imani.
Other author/creatorKintisch, Eli, 1977-
Other author/creatorKolbert, Elizabeth.
Other author/creatorMaxmen, Amy.
Other author/creatorMnookin, Seth.
Other author/creatorOverbye, Dennis, 1944-
Other author/creatorPower, Matthew, 1974-2014.
Other author/creatorSchweitzer, Sarah.
Other author/creatorSpecter, Michael.
Other author/creatorSubramanian, Meera.
Other author/creatorTodd, Kim, 1970-
Other author/creatorWolman, David (Journalist)
Other author/creatorYeoman, Barry.
SeriesThe best American series
Best American series. ^A787203
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.
Abstract Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2014.
General note"A Mariner original."
Genre/formEssays.
Genre/formLiterary collections.
Genre/formEssays.
ISBN054428674X paperback
ISBN9780544286740 paperback

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