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The best American science and nature writing 2014 / edited and with an introduction by Deborah Blum ; Tim Folger, series editor.
In an Era of misleading headlines and cherry-picked facts, good science reporting is hard to find. We're left wondering: Should we eat genetically modified food? Do we really want to know if we have an incurable genetic disease before the symptoms appear? The articles in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014 challenge these questions, and many others, with guest editor Deborah Blum striving to show readers the "curving, complicated line that links discovery and development, choice and consequence". By turns meditative and passionate, and always deeply inquisitive, the pieces in this collection reveal our world and ourselves, both beautiful and astonishingly complex. Book jacket.
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- ISBN: 9780544003422
- ISBN: 054400342X
- Physical Description: xxiii, 318 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
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| General Note: | "A Mariner original." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-318). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Mixed up / Katherine Bagley -- The great forgetting / Nicholas Carr -- The social life of genes / David Dobbs -- What our telescopes couldn't see / Pippa Goldschmidt -- A race to save the orange by altering its DNA / Amy Harmon -- A life-or-death situation / Robin Marantz Henig -- 23 and you / Ferris Jabr -- O-rings / Sarah Stewart Johnson -- When animals mourn / Barbara J. King -- Where it begins / Barbara Kingsolver -- Danger! This mission to Mars could bore you to death! / Maggie Koerth-Baker -- The lost world / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Awakening / Joshua Lang -- Imagining the post-antibiotics future / Maryn McKenna -- The return of measles / Seth Mnookin -- Ants go marching / Justin Nobel -- TV as birth control / Fred Pearce -- The madness of the planets / Corey S. Powell -- Learning how to die in the Anthropocene / Roy Scranton -- Under water / Kate Sheppard -- Twelve ways of viewing Alaska's wild, white sheep / Bill Sherwonit -- The separating sickness / Rebecca Solnit -- Trapline / David Treuer -- The rebirth of Gorongosa / E.O. Wilson -- Bringing them back to life / Carl Zimmer. |
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