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Renowned physicist and global warming skeptic Freeman Dyson selects the year's best science and nature writing
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monografia Rebiun38875753 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun38875753 m o d | cr -n--------- 100204s2010 mau o 000 e eng d 9780547576664 0547576668 MiAaPQ MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng 500 The best American science and nature writing. 2010 edited and with an introducion by Freeman Dyson ; Tim Folger, series editor 1st ed Boston Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010 Boston Boston Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1 online resource (416 p.) 1 online resource (416 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Best American series "A Mariner original" Front Cover; Front Matter; Half Title; Guest Editors of the Best American Science and Nature Writing; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction by Freeman Dyson; The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010; Part One: Visions of Space; The Believer; One Giant Leap to Nowhere; The Missions of Astronomy; Cosmic Vision; Seeking New Earths; Part Two: Neurology Displacing Molecular Biology; Don't!; Out of the Past; Brain Games; Part Three: Natural Beauty; The Alpha Accipiter; Flight of the Kuaka; Modern Darwins; The Superior Civilization; Still Blue; The Lazarus Effect Darwin's First CluesPart Four: The Environment: Gloom and Doom; All You Can Eat; A Formula for Disaster; Not So Silent Spring; The Catastrophist; The Sixth Extinction?; Part Five: The Environment: Small Blessings; Scraping Bottom; A Life of Its Own; Purpose-Driven Life; The Monkey and the Fish; Part Six: The Environment: Big Blessings; Graze Anatomy; Hearth Surgery; Green Giant; India, Enlightened; End Matter; Contributors' Notes; Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2009 Renowned physicist and global warming skeptic Freeman Dyson selects the year's best science and nature writing English American essays- 21st century Nature- Literary collections Science- Literary collections Dyson, Freeman J. Folger, Tim 9781299884168 1299884164 9780547327846 0547327846 Best American series