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Title | The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020 |
Author | Michio Kaku |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | November 3, 2020 |
Category | New Release |
Total Pages | 386 pages |
ISBN | 0358074290 |
Book Rating | 4.5 out of 5 from 10 reviews |
Language | EN, ES, BE, DA ,DE , NL and FR |
A collection of the best science and nature writing published in North America in 2019, guest edited by New York Times best-selling author and ground-breaking physicist Dr. Michio Kaku. “Scientists and science writers have a monumental task: making science exciting and relevant to the average person, so that they care,” writes renowned American physicist Michio Kaku. “If we fail in this endeavor, then we must face dire consequences.” From the startlingly human abilities of AI, to the devastating accounts of California’s forest fires, to the impending traffic jam on the moon, the selections in this year’s Best American Science and Nature Writing explore the latest mysteries and marvels occurring in our labs and in nature. These gripping narratives masterfully translate the work of today’s brightest scientists, offering a clearer view of our world and making us care. THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2020 INCLUDES RIVKA GALCHEN • ADAM GOPNIK • FERRIS JABR • JOSHUA SOKOL • MELINDA WENNER MOYER • SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE • NATALIE WOLCHOVER and others
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2020 by Michio Kaku
Title | The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020 |
Author | Michio Kaku |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Release Date | 2020-11-03 |
Category | Nature |
Total Pages | 384 |
ISBN | 9780358074298 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
A collection of the best science and nature writing published in North America in 2019, guest edited by New York Times best-selling author and ground-breaking physicist Dr. Michio Kaku. "Scientists and science writers have a monumental task: making science exciting and relevant to the average person, so that they care," writes renowned American physicist Michio Kaku. "If we fail in this endeavor, then we must face dire consequences." From the startlingly human abilities of AI, to the devastating accounts of California's forest fires, to the impending traffic jam on the moon, the selections in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing explore the latest mysteries and marvels occurring in our labs and in nature. These gripping narratives masterfully translate the work of today's brightest scientists, offering a clearer view of our world and making us care. THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2020 INCLUDES RIVKA GALCHEN - ADAM GOPNIK - FERRIS JABR - JOSHUA SOKOL - MELINDA WENNER MOYER - SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE - NATALIE WOLCHOVER and others
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2020 by Michio Kaku
Title | The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020 |
Author | Michio Kaku |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2020-11-03 |
Category | Science |
Total Pages | 384 |
ISBN | 9780358074243 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
A collection of the best science and nature writing published in North America in 2019, guest edited by New York Times best-selling author and ground-breaking physicist Dr. Michio Kaku. Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most influential living scientists and a New York Times best-selling author, 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.
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2019 by Sy Montgomery
Title | The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 |
Author | Sy Montgomery |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2019-10-01 |
Category | Science |
Total Pages | 336 |
ISBN | 9781328519016 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER 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 nature writing essential,” observes New York Times best-selling author Sy Montgomery. “Science and nature writing are how we share the truth about the universe with the people of the world.” And collected here are truths about nearly every corner of the universe. From meditations on extinction, to the search for alien life, to the prejudice that infects our medical system, the pieces in this year’s Best American Science and Nature Writing seek to bring to the people stories of some of the most pressing issues facing our planet, as well as moments of wonder reflecting the immense beauty our natural world offers.
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2017 by Hope Jahren
Title | The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017 |
Author | Hope Jahren |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2017-10-03 |
Category | Nature |
Total Pages | 352 |
ISBN | 9781328715517 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Best-selling author Hope Jahren edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing.
Title | The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 |
Author | Sam Kean |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Release Date | 2018-10-02 |
Category | |
Total Pages | 368 |
ISBN | 9781328987808 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Best-selling author Sam Kean edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing.
The Best American Food Writing 2020 by J. Kenji López-Alt
Title | The Best American Food Writing 2020 |
Author | J. Kenji López-Alt |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2020-11-03 |
Category | Cooking |
Total Pages | 272 |
ISBN | 9780358346494 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The year’s top food writing from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country. “These are stories about culture,” writes J. Kenji López-Alt in his introduction. “About how food shapes people, neighborhoods, and history.” This year’s Best American Food Writing captures the food industry at a critical moment in history — from the confrontation of abusive kitchen culture, to the disappearance of the supermarkets, to the rise and fall of celebrity chefs, to the revolution of baby food. Spanning from New York’s premier restaurants to the chile factories of New Mexico, this collection lifts a curtain on how food arrives on our plates, revealing extraordinary stories behind what we eat and how we live. THE BEST AMERICAN FOOD WRITING 2020 INCLUDES BURKHARD BILGER, KAT KINSMAN, LAURA HAYES, TAMAR HASPEL, SHO SPAETH, TIM MURPHY and others
The Best American Sports Writing 2020 by Jackie MacMullan
Title | The Best American Sports Writing 2020 |
Author | Jackie MacMullan |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2020-11-03 |
Category | Sports & Recreation |
Total Pages | 368 |
ISBN | 9780358181835 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The latest addition to the acclaimed series showcasing the best sports writing from the past year. For over twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has built a solid reputation by showcasing the greatest sports journalism of the previous year, culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty print and digital publications. Each year, the series editor and guest editor curate a truly exceptional collection. The only shared traits among all these diverse styles, voices, and stories are the extraordinarily high caliber of writing, and the pure passion they tap into that can only come from sports.
The Best American Essays 2020 by André Aciman
Title | The Best American Essays 2020 |
Author | André Aciman |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2020-11-03 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 336 |
ISBN | 9780358358589 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
A collection of the year’s best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. “An essay is the child of uncertainty,” André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. “The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, are what ultimately give the writing its depth, its magnitude, its grace.” The essays Aciman selected center on people facing moments of deep uncertainty, searching for a greater truth. From a Black father’s confrontation of his son’s illness, to a divorcée’s transcendent experience with strangers, to a bartender grieving the tragic loss of a friend, these stories are a master class not just in essay writing but in empathy, artfully imbuing moments of hardship with understanding and that elusive grace. The Best American 2020 Essays includes RABIH ALAMEDDINE • BARBARA EHRENREICH • LESLIE JAMISON JAMAICA KINCAID • ALEX MARZANO-LESNEVICH • A. O. SCOTT • JERALD WALKER • STEPHANIE POWELL WATTS and others
The Best American Travel Writing 2020 by Jason Wilson
Title | The Best American Travel Writing 2020 |
Author | Jason Wilson |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2020-11-03 |
Category | Travel |
Total Pages | 336 |
ISBN | 9780358362043 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The year’s best travel writing, as chosen by series editor Jason Wilson and guest editor Robert Macfarlane. An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2019, collected by esteemed guest editor Robert Macfarlane, author of Mountains of the Mind and Underland. The Best American Travel Writing gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives, all exploring what it means to travel somewhere new. For the past two decades, readers have come to recognize this annual volume as the gold standard for excellence in travel writing.
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2015 by Rebecca Skloot
Title | The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 |
Author | Rebecca Skloot |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2015-10-06 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 352 |
ISBN | 9780544286757 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
This anthology of essays and articles explores topics ranging from untouched wilderness to scientific ethics—and the nature of curiosity itself. Scientists and writers are both driven by a dogged curiosity, immersing themselves in detailed observations that, over time, uncover larger stories. As Rebecca Skloot says in her introduction, all the stories in this collection are “written by and about people who take the time, and often a substantial amount of risk, to follow curiosity where it may lead, so we can all learn about it.” 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 volume challenge us to consider the strains facing our planet and its many species, while never losing sight of the wonders we’re working to preserve for generations to come. This anthology includes essays and articles by Sheri Fink, Atul Gawande, Leslie Jamison, Sam Kean, Seth Mnookin, Matthew Power, Michael Specter and others.
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2016 by Amy Stewart
Title | The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 |
Author | Amy Stewart |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2016-10-04 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 322 |
ISBN | 9780544749641 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
This anthology collects some of the year’s best science and nature writing—from climate change to killer beetles, an exposé of nail salons, and more. As guest editor Amy Stewart says in her introduction, “science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten…But at the end of the day, we’re all writers. We’re just like novelists, memoirists, and poets. We’re entertainers.” The writers in this anthology pull off that wonderful feat of turning hard research into page-turning narrative. 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 a collection of hard-hitting and beautifully composed writing on the wonders, dangers, and oddities of scientific innovation and our natural world. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 includes Kathryn Schulz, Sarah Maslin Nir, Charles C. Mann, Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Kolbert, Gretel Ehrlich, and others.
The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2020 by John Joseph Adams
Title | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 |
Author | John Joseph Adams |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2020-11-03 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 432 |
ISBN | 9781328618863 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The best science fiction and fantasy stories from 2019, guest-edited by author of the mega-best-selling Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon. Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever—to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and Diana Gabaldon, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today.
The Best American Science Writing 2006 by Atul Gawande
Title | The Best American Science Writing 2006 |
Author | Atul Gawande |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Release Date | 2006-09-05 |
Category | Science |
Total Pages | 384 |
ISBN | 9780060726447 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Together these twenty-one articles on a wide range of today's most leading topics in science, from Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Weiner, and Richard Preston, among others, represent the full spectrum of scientific inquiry, proving once again that "good science writing is evidently plentiful" (American Scientist).
The Best American Food Writing 2019 by Samin Nosrat
Title | The Best American Food Writing 2019 |
Author | Samin Nosrat |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2019-10-01 |
Category | Cooking |
Total Pages | 320 |
ISBN | 9781328663092 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
New York Times best-selling author and James Beard Award winner Samin Nosrat collects the year’s finest writing about food and drink. Best-selling author and winner of numerous awards, Samin Nosrat, selects the year’s top food writing from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country.
Riverwalking by Kathleen Dean Moore
Title | Riverwalking |
Author | Kathleen Dean Moore |
Publisher | Lyons Press |
Release Date | 1995 |
Category | Nature |
Total Pages | 160 |
ISBN | 1558214089 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Twenty essays offer observations on rivers, life, love, loss, motherhood, happiness, evolution, and country music
The Best American Essays 2016 by Jonathan Franzen
Title | The Best American Essays 2016 |
Author | Jonathan Franzen |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2016-10-04 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 354 |
ISBN | 9780544812178 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The National Book Award–winning author compiles a “thought-provoking volume” of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others (Publishers Weekly). As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 “was whether an author had taken a risk.” The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from championing an unpopular opinion to the possibility of ruining a professional career, or irrevocably alienating one’s family. What’s gained are essential insights into aspects of the human condition that would otherwise remain concealed—from questions of queer identity, to the experience of a sibling’s autism and relationships between students and college professors. The Best American Essays 2016 includes entries by Alexander Chee, Paul Crenshaw, Jaquira Diaz, Laura Kipnis, Amitava Kaumar, Sebastian Junger, Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, George Steiner, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and others.
Nose Dive by Harold McGee
Title | Nose Dive |
Author | Harold McGee |
Publisher | Appetite by Random House |
Release Date | 2020-10-20 |
Category | Cooking |
Total Pages | 544 |
ISBN | 9780147529756 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The ultimate guide to the smells of the universe--the ambrosial to the pungent, and everything in between--from the author of the acclaimed culinary guides On Food and Cooking and Keys to Good Cooking. From Harold McGee, James Beard Award-winning author and leading expert on the science of food and cooking, comes an extensive exploration of the awe-inspiring world of smell. In Nose Dive, McGee takes us on a sensory-filled adventure, from the sulfurous nascent earth more than four billion years ago, to the sweetly fragrant Tian Shan mountain range north of the Himalayas, to the keyboard of your laptop, where trace notes of formaldehyde escape between the keys. We'll sniff the ordinary (wet pavement and cut grass) and extraordinary (fresh bread and chocolate), the delightful (roses and vanilla) and the unpleasant (spoiled meat and rotten eggs). We'll smell each other. We'll smell ourselves. Through it all, McGee familiarizes us with the actual bits of matter that we breathe in -- the molecules that trigger our perceptions, that prompt the citrusy smells of coriander and beer and the medicinal smells of daffodils and sea urchins. And like everything in the physical world, molecules have histories. Many of the molecules that we smell every day existed long before any creature was around to smell them -- before there was even a planet for those creatures to live on. Beginning with the origins of those molecules in interstellar space, McGee moves onward through the smells of our planet, the air and the oceans, the forest and the meadows and the city, all the way to the smells of incense, perfume, wine, and food. Here is a story of the world, of all of the smells under our collective nose. A work of astounding scholarship and originality, Nose Dive distills the science behind the smells and translates it, as only McGee can, into an accessible and entertaining guide. Incorporating the latest insights of biology and chemistry, and interwoven with personal observations, McGee reveals how our sense of smell has the power to expose invisible, intangible details of our material world and life, and trigger in us feelings that are the very essence of being alive.
Beyond Einstein by Michio Kaku
Title | Beyond Einstein |
Author | Michio Kaku |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Release Date | 1997 |
Category | Science |
Total Pages | 230 |
ISBN | 0192861964 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
This text approaches scientific questions and theoretical physics with the excitement of a detective story, offering a look at the new science that may make the impossible possible.
World Of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Title | World of Wonders |
Author | Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
Publisher | Milkweed Editions |
Release Date | 2020-09-08 |
Category | Nature |
Total Pages | 186 |
ISBN | 9781571319593 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction—a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us. As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted—no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape—she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance. “What the peacock can do,” she tells us, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts. Warm, lyrical, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy.
The Best Of The Best Of American Science Writing by Jesse Cohen
Title | The Best of the Best of American Science Writing |
Author | Jesse Cohen |
Publisher | Ecco |
Release Date | 2010-04-06 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 416 |
ISBN | 0061875007 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
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, featuring an introduction by the series' 2010 editor and New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman.
Swampwalker S Journal by David M. Carroll
Title | Swampwalker s Journal |
Author | David M. Carroll |
Publisher | HMH |
Release Date | 2001-06-14 |
Category | Nature |
Total Pages | 304 |
ISBN | 0547526377 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Winner of the John Burroughs Medal: An “admission ticket to a secret corner of the world” (Bill McKibben). Naturalist David Carroll has dedicated his life to art and to wetlands. He is as passionate about swamps, bogs, vernal ponds, and the creatures who live in them as most of us are about our families and closest friends. He knows frogs and snakes, muskrats and minks, dragonflies, water lilies, cattails, sedges—everything that swims, flies, trudges, slithers, or sinks its roots in wet places. In this “intimate and wise book,” Carroll takes us on a lively, unforgettable yearlong journey, illustrated with his own elegant drawings, through the wetlands and reveals why they are so important to his life and ours—and to all life on Earth (Sue Hubbell). “Carroll covers four seasons of wading through marshes, swamps, bogs, and fens. [His] eye for detail serves him well, whether he’s spying on a tiny garter snake struggling to suck down a much larger wood frog or watching a raccoon savagely digging a turtle out of its shell.” —Entertainment Weekly “In my pantheon of nature writers, David Carroll walks on water.” —Robert Michael Pyle