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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Preston; Tim Folger |
| ISBN: | 0618722319 9780618722310 |
| OCLC Number: | 85811417 |
| Description: | xxii, 300 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | In Rome's basement / Paul Bennett -- Plastic ocean / Susan Casey -- For the love of lemurs / Richard Conniff -- Rabbit on Mars / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Fishering / Brian Doyle -- Dinosaur shocker! / Helen Fields -- Cooking for eggheads / Patricia Gadsby -- Cyber-neologoliferation / James Gleick -- Final frontier / John Horgan -- How to get a nuclear bomb / William Langewiesche -- Effeminate sheep / Jonah Lehrer -- Let there be light / Michael D. Lemonick -- Nature of violence / Jeffrey A. Lockwood -- Germs of life / Lynn Margulis and Emily Case -- Neanderthal Man / Steve Olson -- Health secrets from the morgue / Michael Perry -- Hitler's willing archaeologists / Heather Pringle -- Sex, lies, and video games / Jonathan Rauch -- Flu hunter / Michael Rosenwald -- Notes on the space we take / Bonnie J. Rough -- Olfactory lives of primates / Robert M. Sapolsky -- Ruffled feathers / John Seabrook -- In the company of bears / Bill Sherwonit -- Rape of Appalachia / Michael Shnayerson -- First soldier of the gene wars / Meredith F. Small -- Plan to keep carbon in check / Robert H. Socolow and Stephen W. Pacala -- Delusions of space enthusiasts / Neil DeGrasse Tyson -- DNA is not destiny / Ethan Watters -- Contributors' notes -- Other notable science and nature writing of 2006. |
| Series Title: | The Best American series |
| Other Titles: | American science and nature writing 2007 |
| Responsibility: | edited and with an introduction by Richard Preston ; Tim Folger, series editor. |
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