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Barcode30293101886971
LocationClark County
Call No500 Best
TitleThe best American science and nature writing 2020 / edited and with and introduction by Michio Kaku ; Jaime Green, series editor.
CollectionNF
Total Circ2
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Clark County30293101886971500 Best3/26/2021 AvailableClark County

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International Standard Book Number 9780358074298 (paperback)
International Standard Book Number 0358074290 (paperback)
Title Statement The best American science and nature writing 2020 / edited and with and introduction by Michio Kaku ; Jaime Green, series editor.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
Physical Description xxviii, 343 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Statement Best American series
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note A journey into the animal mind (from The Atlantic) / Sleep no more (from Wind) / What remains (from the California Sunday magazine) / With a simple twist, a "Magic" material is now the big thing in physics (from Quanta magazine) / The eighth continent (from the New Yorker) / The tumultuous history of a mysterious brain (from the Atlantic) / Younger longer (from The New Yorker) / Right under our noses (from Wires) / Beauty of the beasts (from the New York Times magazines) / Ghosts of the future (from The Washington post ) / Intelligent ways to search for extraterrestrials (from New Yorker) / We have fire everywhere (from the New York Times magazine) / Vaccines reimagined (from Scientific American) / New blood (from the New Yorker) / The day the dinosaurs died (from The New Yorker) / The final five percent (from Longreads) / The next word (from The New Yorker) / Troubled treasure (from Science magazine) / The hidden heroines of chaos (from Quanta magazine) / The hunt for planet nine (from Longreads) / A different kind of theory of everything (from The New Yorker) / The brain that remade itself (from OneZero) / Andrew Zaleski. Natalie Wolchover -- Shannon Stirone -- Joshua Sokol -- Joshua Sokol -- John Seabrook -- Tim Requarth -- Douglas Preston -- Siddhartha Mukherjee -- Melinda Wenner Moyer -- Jon Mooallem -- Adam Mann -- Total eclipse (From Aeon) / Deanna Csomo McCool -- Sarah Kaplan -- Ferris Jarr -- Sara Harrison -- I, language robot (from Los Angeles review of books) / Patrick House -- Adam Gopnik -- Bahar Gholipour -- Rivka Galchen -- David H. Freedman -- Daniel Duane -- Kelly Clancy -- Ross Andersen -- Foreword -- Introduction --
Summary, Etc. Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most influential living scientists and a New York Times best-selling author, 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.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Science Literary collections.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Nature Literary collections.
Index Term-Genre/Form Literature.
Index Term-Genre/Form Essays.
Added Entry, Personal Name Kaku, Michio. editor, writer of introduction.
Added Entry, Personal Name Green, Jaime. editor.

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