The best American science and nature writing 2019
Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. "Science is important because this is how we seek to discover the truth about the world. And this is what makes excellent science and natur...
| Other Authors: | Montgomery, Sy,, Green, Jaime,, Boyle, Rebecca, Brannen, Peter, 1983-, Goldfarb, Ben (Environmental journalist),, Greenberg, Gary, 1957 June 9-, Holland, Eva, 1982-, Jarvis, Brooke, 1981-, McKibben, Bill,, Mead, Rebecca,, Villarosa, Linda,, Yong, Ed, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2019.
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| Physical Description: |
xix, 361 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series: |
Best American series.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- A compassionate substance (from Lapham's Quarterly) /
- Philip Ball
- Search for alien life begins in earth's oldest desert (from The Atlantic) /
- Rebecca Boyle
- Glimpses of a mass extinction in modern-day western New York (from The New Yorker) /
- Peter Brannen
- This sand is your sand (from Outside) /
- Chris Colin
- Brain, reimagined (from Scientific American) /
- Douglas Fox
- Little golden flower-room: on wild places and intimacy (from The Millions) /
- Conor Gearin
- Endling: watching a species vanish in real time (from Pacific Standard) /
- Ben Goldfarb
- What if the placebo effect is not a trick? (from The New York Times Magazine) /
- Gary Greenberg
- Great rhino U-turn (from Mongabay) /
- Jeremy Hance
- Fading star: a constellation (from Lapham's Quarterly) /
- Holly Haworth
- Saving Baby Boy Green (from Wired) /
- Eva Holland
- Fire at Eagle Creek (from Topic) /
- Apricot Irving
- Deleting a species (from Pacific Standard) /
- Rowan Jacobsen
- Insect apocalypse is here (from The New York Times Magazine) /
- Brooke Jarvis
- No heart, no moon (from The Southern Review) /
- Matt Jones
- Scientific detectives probing the secrets of ancient oracles (from Atlas Obscura) /
- Kevin Krajick
- You really don't want to know what it's like to be a right whale these days (from Atlantic) /
- J.B. MacKinnon
- How extreme weather is shrinking the planet (from The New Yorker) /
- Bill McKibben
- Story of a face (from The New Yorker) /
- Rebecca Mead
- How to not die in America (from Splinter) /
- Molly Osberg
- Why paper jams persist (from The New Yorker) /
- Joshua Rothman
- Professor of horrible deeds (from The Chronicle of Higher Education) /
- Jordan Michael Smith
- Welcome to the center of the universe (from Longreads) /
- Shannon Stirone
- Hidden toll: why are black mothers and babies in the United States dying at more than double the rate of white mothers and babies? The answer has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America (from The New York Times Magazine) /
- Linda Villarosa
- When the next plague hits (from The Atlantic) /
- Ed Yong
- Paper trails: living and dying with fragmented medical records (from Undark) /
- Ilana Yurkiewicz.