About this title: Bestselling author and staff writer for "The New Yorker" Groopman edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. Contributors include Walter Kirn, Ron Rosenbaum, Jeffrey Toobin, and Oliver Sacks.
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Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 2008-10-08
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2008-10-08
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: 2008-10-08
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2008-10-08
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"I love this series of books. The science and nature books might be my favorite, but I also enjoy the short stories, essays, and travel writing.
Just a quick review on this one.
It starts with some excellent pieces, gets a bit boring near the middle, but then turns into a fireball of awesomeness near the end. This is the kind of book that helps you open up to areas of science & nature you've never thought about before. Plus, some of the essays are based on cutting-edge stuff.
This book is like a room with many doors and you really can't go wrong by opening any of them."
"Good book on some of the latest research and findings going on. This is a good, varied selection of articles, covering from physics to evolution, and from religion to politics! If you enjoy knowing, you will enjoy this book!
*Most interesting article, Darwin's Suprise: Talks about some proof that we are in fact descendant from other primates, and even more stunning, viruses have been a essential part of our evolution throughout history, being able to combine with our DNA to produce advantageous mutations."
"The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 was a marvelous collection of this previous year's more fascinating popular science articles. Among the best articles in the collection are Jon Cohen's "Zonkeys Are Pretty Much My Favorite Animal," an article about how new exposure to hybrids is making biologists and zoologists rethink the traditional taxonomy of species; John Colapinto's "The Interpreter," where one field linguist has encountered a Brazilian people called the Piraha who have such peculiarities of language that one doubts the possibility that human beings have innate knowledge of language (the Universal Grammar thesis); Freeman Dyson's "Our Biotech Future," a prediction of the ease with which people will use biotechnology; Olivia Judson's "The Selfless Gene," which contends that some form of altruism persists in species because of its overall net benefit; and Andreas Von Bubnoff's "Numbers Can Lie," about how unreliable statistics are, namely with respect to diagnosing illnesses. These are by no means the only articles one should read in this collection, but they would be the top five I would tout from this collection."
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