The best American science and nature writing 2015
By: edited and with an introduction by Rebecca Skloot ; Tim Folger, series editor
Contributors: Abrahamson, Jake; Bilger, Burkhard; Boneham, Sheila Webster, 1952-; Boyle, Rebecca; Deming, Alison Hawthorne, 1946-; Fink, Sheri; Gawande, Atul; Hamilton, Lisa M.; Jacobsen, Rowan; Jamison, Leslie; Jarvis, Brooke; Kean, Sam; Keith, Jourdan Imani; Kintisch, Eli, 1977-; Kolbert, Elizabeth; Maxmen, Amy; Mnookin, Seth; Overbye, Dennis, 1944-; Power, Matthew, 1974-2014; Schweitzer, Sarah; Specter, Michael; Subramanian, Meera; Todd, Kim, 1970-; Wolman, David (Journalist); Yeoman, Barry
Series: The best American series; Best American series
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780544286740
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Science; Literary collections; Nature
Description: Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2014.
Notes: Previously published: 2014.

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