TY  - BOOK
AU  - Groopman,Jerome E
TI  - The best American science and nature writing 2008
T2  - The best American series,
SN  - 9780618834471 (pbk.)
U1  - 810.81 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Co.
KW  - Science
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Nature
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Technical writing
N1  - Series statement from jacket cover; Includes bibliographical references; Zonkeys are pretty much my favorite animal; Jon Cohen --; The interpreter; John Colapinto --; The universe's invisible hand; Christopher J. Conselice --; Untangling the mystery of the Inca; Gareth Cook --; Restoring America's big, wild animals; C. Josh Donlan --; Our biotech future; Freeman Dyson --; The coming robot army; Steve Featherstone --; Malaria: stopping a global killer; Michael Finkel --; The first assassination of the twenty-first century; James Geary --; Our silver-coated future; Robin Marantz Henig --; Children are diamonds; Edward Hoagland --; The selfless gene; Olivia Judson --; The autumn of the multitaskers; Walter Kirn --; First churches of the Jesus cult; Andrew Lawler --; A curious attractions; Jon Mooallem --; Swingers; Ian Parker --; Science and Islam in conflict; Todd Pitock --; Deadly contact; David Quammen --; How to trick an online scammer into carving a computer out of wood; Ron Rosenbaum --; A bolt from the blue; Oliver Sacks --; Darwin's surprise; Michael Specter --; The CSI effect; Jeffrey Toobin --; Numbers can lie; Andreas von Bubnoff --; A mighty wind; Florence Williams
N2  - Jerome Groopman selects twenty-four works of American science and nature writing as the best of the genre from the year 2007, including pieces by John Colapinto, Oliver Sacks, Jeffrey Toobin, and others
ER  -