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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 (The Best American Series) Kindle Edition

by Amy Stewart (Author, Editor), Tim Folger (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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.
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“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 Author

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



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. 

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01912QB50
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (October 4, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 4, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3810 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 322 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0544748999
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    Amy Stewart is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen books, including the new Kopp Sisters series, which began with Girl Waits With Gun. The series is based on the true story of three remarkable sisters who lived in New Jersey a hundred years ago.

    Amy has also written six nonfiction books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world, including the New York Times bestsellers The Drunken Botanist, Wicked Bugs, Wicked Plants, and Flower Confidential.

    She lives in Portland with her husband Scott Brown, a rare book dealer. When she isn't writing, she's making art, which you can see on Instagram, or teaching art and writing classes online.

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    Emma Marris grew up in Seattle, Washington and now lives in Klamath Falls, Oregon, where she writes about the environment, evolution, energy, agriculture, food, language, books and film. Her goal is to find and tell the stories that help us understand how to increase the flourishing of both humanity and the rest of the planet’s species--how to move towards a greener, wilder, happier and more equal future.

    Her magazine stories have appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic, Wired, the Atlantic, Outside, and more.

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Victor Bloomfield
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent addition to the series
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2016
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As always, an excellent addition to the series. I download several of the Best American ... Writing books to my Kindle every year. They make perfect reading for travel, when I don't feel like coping with full-length books. But they always feature excellent writing about important issues.
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Sam Leamy
4.0 out of 5 stars Provocative and surprisingly entertaining
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2017
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An anthology of science and nature based essays can intimidate those of us who failed all the sciences at high school. This collection though is so well written, engaging, informative and surprisingly funny at times, that I enjoyed the book very much. The introduction by Amy Stewart covered all the bases, the place of such writing in history, the need for the journalistic articles as well as the more lighthearted all serve the readers. The goal of this book, of science writers, is to make us look outside of our own spheres, to see beyond the obvious, and to learn about the bigger world. It's a fascinating collection of stories.
Some of the essays are pretty light, such as Amy Leach and the Modern Moose. Others are heartbreaking, the final essay ever written by Oliver Sachs reminds us all of the fact of our own mortality.
Please read this. I'm glad I did. It's thought-provoking in the best way, and yes, I did laugh out loud at some of the images and experiences.
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Soybert
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Collection of Essays
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2018
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This is a great book to have on your nightstand - the essays are all very well written with interesting subjects. I found the piece about tracking ivory to be particularly engaging. They aren't so long that you're mired in heavy duty investigations but they are also not fluff pieces.
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Bobcat Eggs
5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional compilation of writings
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2017
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Easily my most anticipated book of the year. The in depth writing, the broad range of subjects and the insights provided by some of the best journalists and authors in the world, make this an exceptional book. I've been following the series for several years and find each year is just as good or better than the last.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2017
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A few interesting articles a few stupid childish ones
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Andrew Eck
5.0 out of 5 stars Another great set of science articles
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2016
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Great range of cool science stories! More of a focus on environmental science and biology this year than in years past. Some articles included were about climate change, ivory poaching, controlling Ebola outbreaks, sports bras, early cyberneticists, blood transfusions, Asberger's, giant telescopes, microbiomes, a possible looming mega-earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, and environmental disasters,
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Danil Bukhvalov
4.0 out of 5 stars Some from annoyed enough area of climate changes
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2017
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Some essays there is strange and doubtful quality. Some from annoyed enough area of climate changes. We is hearing about this from each chair and iron. But from the other hand the collection is the brilliant illustration how science after became of new religion mature into obsession the same problems. And the main problem, and main topic of this collection is dead. The book start from the story about study of the rotten corpses in Texas, the pre-last essay about dissection of dead bodies, and between this also dying earth, dying mathematics, dying nail industry workers, elephants and shrimps also must die. And salvation only into the turn to not from this world problems like a counting of the groups in math or astronomy. And the final piece of the collection is also contain the brilliant remark about place of contemporary science: the largest telescope in the world will be located in the same place where incas sacrifice children to the gods. Nice!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Some terrible picks from a year with tons of great writing.
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2017
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I have long been a fan of "The Best of.." series, as well as other compilations focusing on nature writing and this was without a doubt the worst one I have read. Based on her selections in this year's edition, I would never read anything by Amy Stewart. There were numerous pieces that while interesting enough, were loooong and written without literary flair for their length (I'm surprised some weren't editing down in the original publications where they ran). Others, like "Why Are Sports Bras So Terrible" also fit into the barely interesting enough category, yet I'm still scratching my head as to how it fit into the theme of science and nature. Some of the shorter pieces also seemed liked ridiculous choices for a "Best of" book, particularly "Back to the Land," which was, by far, not the best piece Orion put out in 2015. Same for "The Modern Moose" which read like a high school Lit student penned it. Nature and Science compendiums should do more than educate and postulate about world problems, they should ALSO inspire readers with wonder and delight, particularly for the nature world. This book failed at that, and I believe because of Stewart specifically since I read lots of great environmental works in 2015 and Tim Folgers listed an equal number of notable works at the end of the book that could/should have been featured in the book. I also think it is poor form to include the same stories in other "Best of" books from the same year, such as "Rotten Ice" and "What's Left Behind," both of which were in the Best of Travel Writing 2016." (As a side note, I bought this book the same day I found in a used book store the Sierra Club's "American Nature Writing 1996" selected by John Murray. This book was a phenomenal collection of essays for a fraction of the price. Check it out if you want to enjoy some truly inspiring nature writing.
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