The best American science and nature writing 2014
By: edited and with an introduction by Deborah Blum ; Tim Folger, series editor
Series: The best American series; Best American series
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780544003422
Subjects: Science; Literary collections; Nature
Notes: "A Mariner original."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-318).
Table of contents: title: Mixed up  -- Katherine Bagley; title: The great forgetting  -- Nicholas Carr; title: The social life of genes  -- David Dobbs; title: What our telescopes couldn't see  -- Pippa Goldschmidt; title: A race to save the orange by altering its DNA  -- Amy Harmon; title: A life-or-death situation  -- Robin Marantz Henig; title: 23 and you  -- Virginia Hughes; title: Why the brain prefers paper  -- Ferris Jabr; title: O-rings  -- Sarah Stewart Johnson; title: When animals mourn  -- Barbara J. King; title: Where it begins  -- Barbara Kingsolver; title: Danger! This mission to Mars could bore you to death!  -- Maggie Koerth-Baker; title: The lost world  -- Elizabeth Kolbert; title: Awakening  -- Joshua Lang; title: Imagining the post-antibiotics future  -- Maryn McKenna; title: The return of measles  -- Seth Mnookin; title: Ants go marching  -- Justin Nobel; title: TV as birth control  -- Fred Pearce; title: The madness of the planets  -- Corey S. Powell; title: Learning how to die in the Anthropocene  -- Roy Scranton; title: Under water  -- Kate Sheppard; title: Twelve ways of viewing Alaska's wild, white sheep  -- Bill Sherwonit; title: The separating sickness  -- Rebecca Solnit; title: Trapline  -- David Treuer; title: The rebirth of Gorongosa  -- E.O. Wilson; title: Bringing them back to life -- Carl Zimmer.