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Title:
The best American science and nature writing. 2013
Summary:
Presents fictional and non-fictional stories written by American authors that discuss topics in science and nature.
General Note:
"A Mariner original."
Contents:
Foreword / Introduction: On tenderness / False idyll Orion / The last distinction Harper's magazine / Talk to me Outside / Beyond the quantum horizon Scientific American / Is space digital? Scientific American / The sweet spot in time Virginia quarterly review / Machines of the infinite Scientific American / Which species will live? Scientific American / The larch Orion / Shattered genius Playboy / The T-cell army New Yorker / The artificial leaf New Yorker / The deadliest virus New Yorker / Our place in the universe Harper's magazine / Out of the wild Popular science / Altered states New Yorker / Recall of the wild New Yorker / Polar express New Yorker / The crisis of big science New York review of books / Autism inc. New York times magazine / The life of pi and other infinities New York times / Super humanity Scientific American/ The patient scientist Scientific American / Can a jellyfish unlock the secret of immortality? New York times magazine / Is Facebook making us lonely? Atlantic / The measured man Atlantic / The wisdom of psychopaths Scientific American / Contributors' notes -- Other notable science and nature writing of 2012.
Physical Description:
xxi, 339 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Publication Date:
2013
ISBN:
9780544003439
Publication Information:
Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Call Number:
500 BEST
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