Best-selling author Sam Kean edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing.
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"This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science," New York Times-bestselling author Sam Kean proclaims in his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. "Things aren't perfect by any means. But there are more scientists making more disco…
Presents a collection of nature and science essays.
"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, author of the blog Brain Pickings "An excellent introduction to the key issues in scien…
The best American science and nature writing 2015
by Gawande, Atul, Jacobsen, Rowan, Jamison, Leslie, Kolbert, Elizabeth, Overbye, Dennis, Kean, Sam, Abrahamson, Jake, Bilger, Burkhard, Boneham, Sheila Webster, Boyle, Rebecca, (Rebecca B.), Deming, Alison Hawthorne, Fink, Sheri, Hamilton, Lisa M., Jarvis, Brooke, Keith, Jourdan Imani, Kintisch, Eli, Maxmen, Amy, Mnookin, Seth, Power, Matthew, Schweitzer, Sarah, Specter, Michael, Subramanian, Meera, Todd, Kim, Wolman, David, (Journalist), Yeoman, Barry
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Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2014.
"A startling essay collection charting the world's history through holes in the ground, rings across wood, mountains, figs, and a body's evolution. Essays move from her rural Canadian childhood to a desert in Niger, where "The Loneliest Tree in the World" once grew. Deeply thoug…
"A startling essay collection charting the world's history through holes in the ground, rings across wood, mountains, figs, and a body's evolution. Essays move from her rural Canadian childhood to a desert in Niger, where "The Loneliest Tree in the World" once grew. Deeply thoug…
Presents a collection of the year's best essays written by American authors that discuss topics in science and nature.
Presents a collection of the year's best essays written by American authors that discuss topics in science and nature.
Featuring over two hundred nature-themed texts spanning the disciplines of literature, science and history, this sourcebook offers an accessible field guide to the environment of Renaissance England, revealing a nation at a crossroads between its pastoral heritage and industrial…