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Main Title The best American science and nature writing 2001 /
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Wilson, Edward O.,
Bilger, Burkhard,
Wilson, Edward Osborne
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Year Published 2001
OCLC Number 48159886
ISBN 0618082964; 9780618082964; 0618153594; 9780618153596
Subjects Science ; Nature ; Natural history ; Technical writing ; sciences (philosophy) ; natural sciences
Holdings
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Modified
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Status
ERAM  Q1.B47 2001 Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA 10/11/2002
Collation xx, 272 pages ; 21 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272).
Contents Notes
Iterations of immortality / David Berlinski -- To save a watering hole / Mark Cherrington -- New life in a death trap / Edwin Dobb -- Abortion and brain waves / Gregg Easterbrook -- Baby steps / Malcolm Gladwell -- In the forests of Gombe / Jane Goodall -- The doubting disease / Jerome Groopman -- The recycled generation -- Stephen S. Hall -- Endurance predator / Bernd Heinrich -- Harpy eagles / Edward Hoagland -- Why the future doesn't need us / Bill Joy -- A killing at dawn / Ted Kerasote -- Seeing scarlet / Barbara Kingsolver and Steven Hopp -- The best clock in the world / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- The wild world's Scotland Yard / Jon R. Luoma -- Breeding discontent / Cynthia Mills -- Ice station Vostok / Oliver Morton -- Being prey / Val Plumwood -- Troubled waters / Sandra Postel -- The genome warrior / Richard Preston -- Megatransect / David Quammen -- Inside the volcano / Donovan Webster.