Isbn: 9780544003422 - the best american science and nature writing 2014: riveting essays that balance discovery with humanity across disciplines (the best american series ®) (18 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. "Undeniably exquisite. The essays in the collection [are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity. " -- Maria Popova, Brain Pickings "A stimulating compendium. " -- Kirkus Reviews Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Deborah Blum selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines. Light crease and dogearing on cover, pages beginning to tan, spotting on page ends. Otherwise in good readable condition. 348 pages.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 352 pages. Cover fadedUndeniably exquisite . . . The essays in the collection [are] meditations tha t reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity. - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings n nA stimulating compendium. - Kirkus Reviews n nPulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Deborah Blum se lects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance researc h with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines. n nEditorial Reviews n n09/22/2014 nThis thought provoking, per spective shifting edition of a consistently strong series draws from well-known publications like Scientific American and The Atlantic, but Blum (The Poisoner's Handbook) has also reached out to newer online publications like Matter and Nau tilus, bringing the best from those venues to a new audience. Making connections between seemingly unrelated topics can help expand thinking, as seen in the eff ects of automated navigation on both airplane pilot error and Inuit hunting acci dents that Nicholas Carr explores in The Great Forgetting. Sarah Stewart Johnson makes a similar connection between the loss of a 1912 Antarctic expedition and the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in O-Rings. Blum features stories of choices and of consequences, highlighting the Anthropocene-era world's rapid changes in response to human behavior. Essays like Virginia Hughes's 23 and You investigates the effects of availability of individual genetic information on hu man interactions, while pieces like Maryn McKenna's Imagining the Post-Antibioti cs Future and Kate Sheppard's Under Water remind us of unpleasant futures which we have in large part created ourselves. But Barbara Kingsolver's Where it Begin.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - "Undeniably exquisite . . .The essays in the collection [are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity." Maria Popova, Brain Pickings"A stimulating compendium." Kirkus ReviewsPulitzer Prizewinning journalist and author Deborah Blum selects the year'stop science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnTIM FOLGER is a contributing editor at Discover and writes about science for several magazines. He lives in New Mexico.Klappentextrnrn?Undeniably exquisite . . . The essays in the .