The best American science and nature writing 2020 / edited and with an introduction by Michio Kaku ; Jaime Green, series editor.
Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most influential living scientists and a New York Times best-selling author, selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and, in the process, uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines.
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- ISBN: 9780358074298
- ISBN: 0358074290
- Physical Description: xxviii, 343 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword -- Introduction -- A journey into the animal mind (from The Atlantic) / Ross Andersen -- Sleep no more (from Wind) / Kelly Clancy -- What remains (from the California Sunday magazine) / Daniel Duane -- With a simple twist, a "Magic" material is now the big thing in physics (from Quanta magazine) / David H. Freedman -- The eighth continent (from the New Yorker) / Rivka Galchen -- The tumultuous history of a mysterious brain (from the Atlantic) / Bahar Gholipour -- Younger longer (from The New Yorker) / Adam Gopnik -- Right under our noses (from Wired) / Sara Harrison -- I, language robot (from Los Angeles review of books) / Patrick House -- Beauty of the beasts (from the New York Times magazine) / Ferris Jarr -- Ghosts of the future (from The Washington post) / Sarah Kaplan -- Intelligent ways to search for extraterrestrials (from The New Yorker) / Adam Mann -- Total eclipse (From Aeon) / Deanna Csomo McCool -- We have fire everywhere (from the New York Times magazine) / Jon Mooallem -- Vaccines reimagined (from Scientific American) / Melinda Wenner Moyer -- New blood (from the New Yorker) / Siddhartha Mukherjee -- The day the dinosaurs died (from The New Yorker) / Douglas Preston -- The final five percent (from Longreads) / Tim Requarth -- The next word (from The New Yorker) / John Seabrook -- Troubled treasure (from Science magazine) / Joshua Sokol -- The hidden heroines of chaos (from Quanta magazine) / Joshua Sokol -- The hunt for planet nine (from Longreads) / Shannon Stirone -- A different kind of theory of everything (from The New Yorker) / Natalie Wolchover -- The brain that remade itself (from OneZero) / Andrew Zaleski. |
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Subject: | Science > Literary collections. Nature > Literary collections. Sciences > Anthologies. Nature > Anthologies. Nature. Science. |
Genre: | Essay. essays. Essays. Literary collections. Literature. Literature. Essays. Littérature. Essais. |
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Homer Public Library | 500 BES 2020 (Text) | 000166306 | New Books | Available | - |