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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001

Also an instant bestseller in the Best American series, this second annual Best American Science and Nature Writing volume, edited by the Pulitzer Prize — winning author, scientist, and naturalist Edward O. Wilson, promises to be another “eclectic, provocative collection” (Entertainment Weekly) that is both a science reader’s dream and a nature lover’s sustenance.

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

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 272
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780618153596
  • Genres
  • science, anthologies
  • Release date
  • 2001