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" The best American science and nature writing 2001 / "
edited and with an introduction by Edward O. Wilson ; Burkhard Bilger, series editor
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BL
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584115
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b413334
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The best American science and nature writing 2001 /\ edited and with an introduction by Edward O. Wilson ; Burkhard Bilger, series editor
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Boston, Mass. :: Houghton Mifflin Co.,, 2001
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The best American series
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xx, 272 p. ;; 21 cm
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0618082964
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: 0618153594 (pbk.) :
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-272)
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Iterations of immortality / David Berlinski -- To save a watering hole / Mark Cherrington -- New life in a death trap / Edwin Dobb -- Abortion and brain waves / Gregg Easterbrook -- Baby steps / Malcolm Gladwell -- In the forests of Gombe / Jane Goodall -- The doubting disease / Jerome Groopman -- The recycled generation -- Stephen S. Hall -- Endurance predator / Bernd Heinrich -- Harpy eagles / Edward Hoagland -- Why the future doesn't need us / Bill Joy -- A killing at dawn / Ted Kerasote -- Seeing scarlet / Barbara Kingsolver and Steven Hopp -- The best clock in the world / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- The wild world's Scotland Yard / Jon R. Luoma -- Breeding discontent / Cynthia Mills -- Ice station Vostok / Oliver Morton -- Being prey / Val Plumwood -- Troubled waters / Sandra Postel -- The genome warrior / Richard Preston -- Megatransect / David Quammen -- Inside the volcano / Donovan Webster
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Science
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Nature
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Natural history
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Technical writing
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Wilson, Edward O.
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Bilger, Burkhard
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