The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 by Tim Folger, Richard Preston

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing #2007

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007

Tim Folger, Richard Preston with Michael Shnayerson (Contributor), Stephen W. Pacala (Contributor), Ethan Watters (Contributor), Robert M. Sapolksy (Contributor), James Gleick (Contributor), Brian Doyle (Contributor), John Lehrer (Contributor), Heather Pringle (Contributor), Michael Perry (Contributor), Patricia Gadsby (Contributor), Jonathan Rauch (Contributor), Susan Casey (Contributor), Jeffrey A. Lockwood (Contributor), Michael D. Lemonick (Contributor), Bonnie J. Rough (Contributor), John Horgan (Contributor), Paul Bennett (Contributor), Steve Olson (Contributor), Richard Conniff (Contributor), Lynn Margulis (Contributor), Helen Sarah Fields (Contributor), Meredith F. Small (Contributor), Emily Case (Contributor), Alison Hawthorne Deming (Contributor), Michael Rosenwald (Contributor), William Langewiesche (Contributor), John Seabrook (Contributor), Neil deGrasse Tyson (Contributor), Bill Sherwonit (Contributor), Robert H. Socolow (Contributor)

300 pages • paperback • first pub 2007 • 1 edition

nonfiction essays nature science challenging informative fast-paced

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"Science is about not knowing and wanting badly to know. Science is about flawed and complicated human beings trying to use whatever tools they've got, along with their minds, to see something strange and new. In that sense, writing about science ...