The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2016

Amy Stewart,Tim Folger

ISBN 10: 0544748999 / ISBN 13: 9780544748996

Published by Mariner Books October 2016, 2016

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The Best American Series ; 8.27 X 5.43 X 0.87 inches; 320 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2016
• Publisher: Mariner Books October 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0544748999
• ISBN 13: 9780544748996
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: None
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science - General

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Synopsis

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 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
 
Amy Stewart, guest editor, is the award-winning author of seven books, including her acclaimed Kopp Sisters novels and the bestsellers The Drunken Botanist and Wicked Plants. She and her husband live in Eureka, California, where they own a bookstore called Eureka Books.
 
Tim Folger, series editor, is a contributing editor at Discover and writes about science for several magazines. He lives in Gallup, New Mexico.
 

About the Authors

AMY STEWART is the New York Times best-selling author of the acclaimed Kopp Sisters series, which began with Girl Waits with Gun. Her seven nonfiction books include The Drunken Botanist and Wicked Plants. She lives in Portland, Oregon. 

TIM FOLGER is a contributing editor at Discover and writes about science for several magazines. He lives in New Mexico.