TY - BOOK AU - Kolbert,Elizabeth AU - Folger,Tim TI - The best American science and nature writing 2009 SN - 9780547002590 AV - Q 1 B561 2009 U1 - 507 PY - 2009/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - Science KW - Popular works KW - Nature KW - Natural history KW - Estudio de la naturaleza N1 - "Un original de Marinero"; 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 N2 - 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 ER -