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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010
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Author
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Freeman Dyson, ed. Tim Folger, series ed.
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Mariner
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paperback
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ISBN
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9780547327846
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385/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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23239
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Description
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Visionary physicist Freeman Dyson pilots this collection of outstanding science writing, under such headings as Visions of Space, Natural Beauty, The Environment: Doom and Gloom, and The Environment: Small Blessings. Here is Tom Wolfe's "One Giant Leap to Nowhere"; John Colapinto's "Brain Games"; Jane Goodall's "The Lazarus Effect"; and Elizabeth Kolbert's "The Sixth Extinction?" In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called this "a magnificent display of writing.... The collection is a joy to read and one to savor." Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For this title, as for each of the others, a series editor reviews hundreds of periodicals, then selects between 50 and 100 outstanding works. The guest editor—a recognized expert in the field—then pares the list down to the 20 or so very best pieces.
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