The best American science and nature writing 2015

Folger, Tim, (editor.). Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- (editor.). Abrahamson, Jake. (Added Author). Bilger, Burkhard. (Added Author). Boneham, Sheila Webster, 1952- (Added Author). Boyle, Rebecca. (Added Author). Deming, Alison Hawthorne, 1946- (Added Author). Fink, Sheri. (Added Author). Gawande, Atul. (Added Author). Hamilton, Lisa M. (Added Author). Jacobsen, Rowan. (Added Author). Jamison, Leslie. (Added Author). Jarvis, Brooke. (Added Author). Kean, Sam. (Added Author). Keith, Jourdan Imani. (Added Author). Kintisch, Eli, 1977- (Added Author). Kolbert, Elizabeth. (Added Author). Maxmen, Amy. (Added Author). Mnookin, Seth. (Added Author). Overbye, Dennis, 1944- (Added Author). Power, Matthew, 1974-2014 (Added Author). Schweitzer, Sarah. (Added Author). Specter, Michael. (Added Author). Subramanian, Meera. (Added Author). Todd, Kim, 1970- (Added Author). Wolman, David (Journalist) (Added Author). Yeoman, Barry. (Added Author).

Summary: Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2014.

Record details

ISBN: 9780544286740
ISBN: 054428674X
Physical Description: xxiv, 318 pages ; 21 cm.
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Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A Mariner original."

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / by Tim Folger -- Introduction / by Rebecca Skloot -- Waiting for light / Jake Abrahamson -- In deep / Burkhard Bilger -- A question of corvids / Sheila Webster Boneham -- The health effects of a world without darkness / Rebecca Boyle -- Spotted hyena / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Life, death, and grim routine fill the day at a Liberian ebola clinic / Sheri Fink -- No risky chances / Atul Gawande -- Linux for lettuce / Lisa M. Hamilton -- Down by the river / Rowan Jacobsen -- The empathy exams : a medical actor writes her own script / Leslie Jamison -- The deepest dig / Brooke Jarvis -- Phineas Gage, neuroscience's most famous patient / Sam Kean -- At risk / Jourdan Imani Keith -- Desegregating wilderness / Jourdan Imani Keith -- Into the maelstrom / Eli Kintisch -- The big kill / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Digging through the world's oldest graveyard / Amy Maxmen -- One of a kind / Seth Mnookin -- A pioneer as elusive as his particle / Dennis Overbye -- Blood in the sand / Matthew Power -- Chasing Bayla / Sarah Schweitzer -- Partial recall / Michael Specter -- The city and the sea / Meera Subramanian -- Curious / Kim Todd -- The aftershocks / David Wolman -- From billions to none / Barry Yeoman.