The best American science and nature writing 2017 / edited and with an introduction by Hope Jahren ; Tim Folger, series editor.
Series: Best American seriesPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xx, 324 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781328715517
- 1328715515
- Everts, Sarah. Art of saving relics
- Konnikova, Maria. Altered tastes
- Tingley, Kim. Secrets of the wave pilots
- Twilley, Nicola. Billion-year wave
- Cudmore, Becca. Case for leaving city rats alone
- Draper, Robert. Battle for Virunga
- Kizzia, Tom. New harpoon
- Kolbert, Elizabeth. Song of ice
- Kudler, Adrian Glick. Something uneasy in the Los Angeles air
- Mouallem, Omar, 1985- Dark science
- QH45.5 .B47 2017
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"A Mariner original."
The art of saving relics / Sarah Everts -- Altered tastes / Maria Konnikova -- The secrets of the wave pilots / Kim Tingley -- The billion-year wave / Nicola Twilley -- The case for leaving city rats alone / Becca Cudmore -- The battle for Virunga / Robert Draper -- The new harpoon / Tom Kizzia -- A song of ice / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Something uneasy in the Los Angeles air / Adrian Glick Kudler -- Dark science / Omar Mouallem -- The parks of tomorrow / Michelle Nijhuis -- How factory farms play chicken with antibiotics / Tom Philpott -- The invisible catastrophe / Nathaniel Rich -- The devil is in the details / Christopher Solomon -- The physics pioneer who walked away from it all / Sally Davies -- The DIY scientist, the Olympian, and the mutated gene / David Epstein -- Inside the breakthrough starshot mission to Alpha Centauri / Ann Finkbeiner -- He fell in love with his good student-- Then fired her for it / Azeen Ghorayshi -- The woman who might find us another Earth / Chris Jones -- Out here, no one can hear you scream / Katrhryn Joyce -- The amateur cloud society that (sort of) rattled the scientific community / Jon Mooallem -- The man who gave himself away / Michael Regnier -- Unfriendly climate / Sonia Smith -- It's time these ancient women scientists get their due / Emily Temple-Wood.
Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in the previous year, including works by such authors as Sarah Everts, Nathaniel Rich, and Kathryn Joyce.