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The best American science and nature writing 2009 / edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Kolbert ; Tim Folger, series editor

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Best American seriesPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.Description: xxii, 328 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780547002590
  • 0547002599
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 507
LOC classification:
  • Q 1 B561 2009
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Contents:
Introduction / by Elizabeth Kolbert -- Faustian economics / Wendell Berry -- The ethics of climate change / John Broome -- Is Google making us stupid? / Nicholas Carr -- High-tech trash / Chris Carroll -- Intel inside / Andrew Curry -- Blown apart / Keay Davidson -- Did life begin in ice? / Douglas Fox -- The day before Genesis / Adam Frank -- The itch / Atul Gawande -- The mushroom cloud's silver lining / David Grimm -- Last of the Neanderthals / Stephen S. Hall -- Virtual Iraq / Sue Halpern -- Chain reaction / Walter Issacson -- Wasteland / Frederick Kaufman -- Minds of their own / Virginia Morell -- Back to the future / J. Madeleine Nash -- To take wilderness in hand / Michelle Nijhuis -- How we evolve / Benjamin Phelan -- Pop psychology / Virginia Postrel -- Contagious cancer / David Quammen -- The reality tests / Joshua Roebke -- Darwin and the meaning of flowers / Oliver Sacks -- Animalcules and other little subjects / Mark A. Smith -- Big foot / Michael Specter -- Red is the new green / Patrick Symmes -- Stayin' Alive / Gary Wolf.
Summary: Collects nature- and science-based essays by such authors as Wendell Berry, Douglas Fox, Adam Frank, Nicholas Carr, Chris Carroll, Sue Halpern, Walter Isaacson, Frederick Kaufman, Virginia Morell, John Broome.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) Q 1 B561 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000108396

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Introduction / by Elizabeth Kolbert -- Faustian economics / Wendell Berry -- The ethics of climate change / John Broome -- Is Google making us stupid? / Nicholas Carr -- High-tech trash / Chris Carroll -- Intel inside / Andrew Curry -- Blown apart / Keay Davidson -- Did life begin in ice? / Douglas Fox -- The day before Genesis / Adam Frank -- The itch / Atul Gawande -- The mushroom cloud's silver lining / David Grimm -- Last of the Neanderthals / Stephen S. Hall -- Virtual Iraq / Sue Halpern -- Chain reaction / Walter Issacson -- Wasteland / Frederick Kaufman -- Minds of their own / Virginia Morell -- Back to the future / J. Madeleine Nash -- To take wilderness in hand / Michelle Nijhuis -- How we evolve / Benjamin Phelan -- Pop psychology / Virginia Postrel -- Contagious cancer / David Quammen -- The reality tests / Joshua Roebke -- Darwin and the meaning of flowers / Oliver Sacks -- Animalcules and other little subjects / Mark A. Smith -- Big foot / Michael Specter -- Red is the new green / Patrick Symmes -- Stayin' Alive / Gary Wolf.

Collects nature- and science-based essays by such authors as Wendell Berry, Douglas Fox, Adam Frank, Nicholas Carr, Chris Carroll, Sue Halpern, Walter Isaacson, Frederick Kaufman, Virginia Morell, John Broome.

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