Best American Science Writing - April 2024

Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

“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 discoveries in more places about more things than ever before.” The twenty-six pieces assembled here chart the full spectrum of those discoveries. From the outer reaches of space, to the mysteries of the human mind, to the changing culture in labs and universities across the nation, we see time and again the someti... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1328987809
• ASIN: 1328987809
• ISBN: 9781328987808
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

“Undeniably exquisite . . . Reveal[s] not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” —Maria Popova   “An excellent introduction to the key issues in science today.” —P. D. Smith, Guardian   “[A] stellar compendium . . . Delightful to read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review A renowned scientist and the best-selling author of Lab Girl, Hope Jahren selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across disciplines.

• ASIN: 1328715515
• ASIN: 1328715515
• ISBN: 1328715515
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

The Best American Series   The next edition in a series praised as “undeniably exquisite” (Maria Popova), The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 includes work from both award-winning writers and up-and-coming voices in the field. From Brooke Jarvis on deep-ocean mining to Elizabeth Kolbert on New Zealand’s unconventional conservation strategies, this is a group that celebrates the growing diversity in science and nature writing alike. Altogether, the writers honored in this year’s volume challenge us to consider the strains facing our planet and its many species, while ne... [Read More]

• ASIN: 054428674X
• ASIN: 054428674X
• ISBN: 054428674X
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten,” notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016. “But at the end of the day, we’re all writers . . . We’re here to play for the folks.” The writers in this anthology brought us the year’s highest notes in the genre. From a Pulitzer Prize–winning essay on the earthquake that could decimate the Pacific Northwest to the astonishing work of investigative journalism that transformed the nail salon industry, this is... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544748999
• ASIN: 0544748999
• ISBN: 9780544748996
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

The Best of the Best of American Science Writing (The Best American Science Writing)

For a decade, Ecco has published the most outstanding science writing in America, collected in highly acclaimed annual volumes edited by some of the most impressive and most important names in science and science writing today: James Gleick, Timothy Ferris, Matt Ridley, Oliver Sacks, Dava Sobel, Alan Lightman, Atul Gawande, Gina Kolata, Sylvia Nasar, and Natalie Angier. Now series editor Jesse Cohen invites the previous guest editors to select their favorite essays for this one-of-a-kind anthology. The result is an outstanding compendium—the best science writing of the new millennium, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0061875007
• ASIN: 0061875007
• ISBN: 0061875007
• Manufacturer: Ecco

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

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.New York Times best-selling author of How to Be a Good Creature, The Soul of an Octopus, The Good Good Pig, and more, Sy Montgomery, selects the year’s top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity, and, in the process, uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines.  

• ASIN: 1328519007
• ASIN: 1328519007
• ISBN: 1328519007
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014 (The Best American Series ®)

“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, Brain Pickings“A stimulating compendium.” — Kirkus ReviewsPulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author Deborah Blum selects the year’s top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines.

• ASIN: 054400342X
• ASIN: 054400342X
• ISBN: 054400342X
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006 (The Best American Series)

In his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006, Brian Greene writes that "science needs to be recognized for what it is: the ultimate in adventure stories."The twenty-five pieces in this year's collection take you on just such an adventure. Natalie Angier probes the origins of language, Paul Raffaele describes a remote Amazonian tribe untouched by the modern world, and Frans B. M. de Waal explains what a new breed of economists is learning from monkeys. Drake Bennett profiles the creator of Ecstasy and more than two hundred other psychedelic compounds -- a man hailed ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 061872222X
• UPC: 046442722223
• ASIN: 061872222X
• ISBN: 061872222X
• Manufacturer: Best American

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013 (The Best American Series ®)

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year’s top science and nature writing from journalists who dive into their fields with curiosity and passion, delivering must-read articles from a wide array of fields.

• ASIN: 0544003438
• ASIN: 0544003438
• ISBN: 0544003438
• Brand: Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010 (The Best American Series ®)

Freeman Dyson, renowned physicist and public intellectual, edits this year’s volume of the finest science and nature writing.

• ASIN: 0547327846
• ASIN: 0547327846
• ISBN: 9780547327846
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Science Writing 2012

The Best American Science Writing 2012 is yet another endlessly fascinating and mind-expanding installment of the popular science series that Kirkus Reviews calls, “Superb brain candy.” Edited by renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku, co-founder of string field theory, this collection contains the most engaging and provocative science writing of the year—gathering in one volume enthralling and eye-opening essays about the latest developments in biochemistry, physics, astronomy, genetics, evolutionary theory, cognition, and more.

• ASIN: 0062117912
• ASIN: 0062117912
• ISBN: 0062117912
• Manufacturer: Ecco

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009 (The Best American Series ®)

Elizabeth Kolbert, one of today's leading environmental journalists, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. Bringing together promising new voices and prize-winning favorites, this collection is "a delight for any fan of popular science" (Publishers Weekly).

• ASIN: 0547002599
• ASIN: 0547002599
• ISBN: 0547002599
• Brand: Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 (The Best American Series ®)

"Science is about not knowing and wanting badly to know. Science is about flawed and complicated human beings trying to use whatever tools they've got, along with their minds, to see something strange and new. In that sense, writing about science is just another way of writing about the human condition." -- from the introduction by Richard PrestonThe twenty-eight pieces in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 span a wide range of topics, from the farthest reaches of space to the everyday world around us to the secrets hiddin in our own bodies. Michael Lemonick travels to an extinc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618722319
• UPC: 046442722315
• ASIN: 0618722319
• ISBN: 0618722319
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2005 (Best American)

The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005 includes:Natalie Angier • Jared Diamond • Timothy Ferris • Malcolm Gladwell • Jerome Groopman • Bill McKibben ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618273433
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• ASIN: 0618273433
• ISBN: 0618273433
• Manufacturer: Best American

The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2001 (The Best American Series)

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• ISBN: 0618153594
• Brand: Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017

Best-selling author Hope Jahren edits this year’s volume of the finest science and nature

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The Best of the Best American Science Writing

Honoring the 10th anniversary of Ecco s acclaimed Best American Science Writing series, here is Best of the Best of American Science Writing. The ten previous guest editors including Oliver Sacks, Natalie Angier, Alan Lightman,

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018

Best-selling author Sam Kean edits this year’s volume of the finest science and nature

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013

A collection of the best science and nature writing from the past

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• Rating: 4.0

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012

Best-selling author and irrationality advocate Dan Ariely selects the year's best science and nature

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• Rating: 4.333

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 - eBook

The Best American Series®First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals,

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013 - eBook

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year’s top science and nature writing from journalists who dive into their fields with curiosity and passion, delivering must-read articles from a wide array of

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• Rating: 4.0

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010 - eBook

Freeman Dyson, renowned physicist and public intellectual, edits this year’s volume of the finest science and nature

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• Rating: 5.0

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012 - eBook

The Best American Series®First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals,

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• Rating: 4.333

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016

Best-selling author Amy Stewart edits this year’s volume of the finest science and nature

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The Best American Science Writing 2006 by Atul Gawande

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 by Roach, Mary

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 by Kean, Sam

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 by Roach, Mary

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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019, Paperback by Montgomery, Sy (E...

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016

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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006 by Greene, Brian

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