The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007

by Preston, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780618722242
• ISBN10: 0618722246
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-10
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

This "wonderful series...where students find plenty of inspiration" (New Scientist), "The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007" is edited by Richard Preston, best-selling author of "The Hot Zone", "The Cobra Event" and other books.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. x
Introduction	p. xiii
In Rome's Basement: from National Geographic	p. 1
Plastic Ocean: from Best Life	p. 9
For the Love of Lemurs: from Smithsonian	p. 21
The Rabbit on Mars: from Isotope	p. 31
Fishering: from Ecotone	p. 34
Dinosaur Shocker!: from Smithsonian	p. 36
Cooking for Eggheads: from Discover	p. 43
Cyber-Neologoliferation: from The New York Times Magazine	p. 51
The Final Frontier: from Discover	p. 60
How to Get a Nuclear Bomb: from The Atlantic Monthly	p. 71
The Effeminate Sheep: from Seed	p. 97
Let There Be Light: from Time	p. 105
The Nature of Violence: from Orion	p. 115
The Germs of Life: from Orion	p. 123
Neanderthal Man: from Smithsonian	p. 127
Health Secrets from the Morgue: from Men's Health	p. 135
Hitler's Willing Archaeologists: from Archaeology	p. 144
Sex, Lies, and Video Games: from The Atlantic Monthly	p. 153
The Flu Hunter: from Smithsonian	p. 169
Notes on the Space We Take: from Ninth Letter	p. 178
The Olfactory Lives of Primates: from The Virginia Quarterly Review	p. 186
Ruffled Feathers: from The New Yorker	p. 191
In the Company of Bears: from Anchorage Press	p. 213
The Rape of Appalachia: from Vanity Fair	p. 228
First Soldier of the Gene Wars: from Archaeology	p. 249
A Plan to Keep Carbon in Check: from Scientific American	p. 259
Delusions of Space Enthusiasts: from Natural History	p. 268
DNA Is Not Destiny: from Discover	p. 276
Contributors' Notes	p. 291
Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2006	p. 298
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