The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Format: Book
Description: xxiv, 318 pages ; 21 cm.
Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2014.
Series: Best American series.
Other Authors:
Folger, Tim, editor.
Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- editor.
Abrahamson, Jake, contributor.
Bilger, Burkhard, contributor.
Boneham, Sheila Webster, 1952- contributor.
Boyle, Rebecca (Rebecca B.), contributor.
Deming, Alison Hawthorne, 1946- contributor.
Fink, Sheri, contributor.
Gawande, Atul, contributor.
Hamilton, Lisa M., contributor.
Jacobsen, Rowan, contributor.
Jamison, Leslie, contributor.
Jarvis, Brooke, 1981- contributor.
Kean, Sam, contributor.
Keith, Jourdan Imani, 1961- contributor.
Kintisch, Eli, 1977- contributor.
Kolbert, Elizabeth, contributor.
Maxmen, Amy, 1977- contributor.
Mnookin, Seth, contributor.
Overbye, Dennis, 1944- contributor.
Power, Matthew, 1974-2014, contributor.
Schweitzer, Sarah, contributor.
Specter, Michael, contributor.
Subramanian, Meera, contributor.
Todd, Kim, 1970- contributor.
Wolman, David (Journalist), contributor.
Yeoman, Barry, 1960- contributor.
Folger, Tim, editor.
Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- editor.
Abrahamson, Jake, contributor.
Bilger, Burkhard, contributor.
Boneham, Sheila Webster, 1952- contributor.
Boyle, Rebecca (Rebecca B.), contributor.
Deming, Alison Hawthorne, 1946- contributor.
Fink, Sheri, contributor.
Gawande, Atul, contributor.
Hamilton, Lisa M., contributor.
Jacobsen, Rowan, contributor.
Jamison, Leslie, contributor.
Jarvis, Brooke, 1981- contributor.
Kean, Sam, contributor.
Keith, Jourdan Imani, 1961- contributor.
Kintisch, Eli, 1977- contributor.
Kolbert, Elizabeth, contributor.
Maxmen, Amy, 1977- contributor.
Mnookin, Seth, contributor.
Overbye, Dennis, 1944- contributor.
Power, Matthew, 1974-2014, contributor.
Schweitzer, Sarah, contributor.
Specter, Michael, contributor.
Subramanian, Meera, contributor.
Todd, Kim, 1970- contributor.
Wolman, David (Journalist), contributor.
Yeoman, Barry, 1960- contributor.
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.
ISBN:
054428674X
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LITERATURE Essays Bes 2015 | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |