Description: The best American science and nature writing 2017

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The best American science and nature writing 2017

Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in the previous year, including works by such authors as Sarah Everts, Nathaniel Rich, and Kathryn Joyce.

Other Authors:	Jahren, Hope,, Folger, Tim,, Everts, Sarah., Konnikova, Maria., Tingley, Kim., Twilley, Nicola., Cudmore, Becca., Draper, Robert., Kizzia, Tom., Kolbert, Elizabeth., Kudler, Adrian Glick., Mouallem, Omar, 1985-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Physical Description:	xx, 324 pages ; 21 cm.
Series:	Best American series.
Subjects:	Science -- Literary collections. Nature -- Literary collections.

Summary:	Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in the previous year, including works by such authors as Sarah Everts, Nathaniel Rich, and Kathryn Joyce.
Item Description:	"A Mariner original." Art of saving relics / Sarah Everts -- Altered tastes / Maria Konnikova -- Secrets of the wave pilots / Kim Tingley -- Billion-year wave / Nicola Twilley -- Case for leaving city rats alone / Becca Cudmore -- Battle for Virunga / Robert Draper -- New harpoon / Tom Kizzia -- A song of ice / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Something uneasy in the Los Angeles air / Adrian Glick Kudler -- Dark science / Omar Mouallem -- Parks of tomorrow / Michelle Nijhuis -- How factory farms play chicken with antibiotics / Tom Philpott -- Invisible catastrophe / Nathaniel Rich -- Devil is in the details / Christopher Solomon -- Physics pioneer who walked away from it all / Sally Davies -- DIY scientist, the Olympian, and the mutated gene / David Epstein -- Inside the breakthrough starshot mission to Alpha Centauri / Ann Finkbeiner -- He fell in love with his good student-- Then fired her for it / Azeen Ghorayshi -- Woman who might find us another Earth / Chris Jones -- Out here, no one can hear you scream / Katrhryn Joyce -- Amateur cloud society that (sort of) rattled the scientific community / Jon Mooallem -- Man who gave himself away / Michael Regnier -- Unfriendly climate / Sonia Smith -- It's time these ancient women scientists get their due / Emily Temple-Wood. Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in the previous year, including works by such authors as Sarah Everts, Nathaniel Rich, and Kathryn Joyce.
Physical Description:	xx, 324 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	9781328715517 1328715515