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- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2017.
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| Physical Description: |
xx, 324 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series: |
Best American series.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.