The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017
By: edited and with an introduction by Hope Jahren ; Tim Folger, series editor
Contributors: Everts, Sarah; Konnikova, Maria; Tingley, Kim; Twilley, Nicola; Cudmore, Becca; Draper, Robert; Kizzia, Tom; Kolbert, Elizabeth; Kudler, Adrian Glick; Mouallem, Omar, 1985-
Edition: First edition
Series: Best American Series, Best American Science and Nature Writing #18
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: October 3, 2017
Place of publication: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Language: eng
Format: Trade paperback
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781328715517
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Science; Literary collections; Nature
Description: 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.
Notes: "A Mariner original."
Table of contents: label: Foreword
title: Tim Folger
pagenum: xi; label: Introduction
title: Hope Jahren
pagenum: xvi; label: The Art of Saving Relics
title: Sarah Everts
pagenum: 1; label: Altered Tastes
title: Maria Konnikova
pagenum: 10; label: The Secrets of the Wave Pilots
title: Kim Tingley
pagenum: 27; label: The Billion-Year Wave
title: Nicola Twilley
pagenum: 43; label: The Case for Leaving City Rats Alone
title: Becca Cudmore
pagenum: 59; label: The Battle for Virunga
title: Robert Draper
pagenum: 65; label: The New Harpoon
title: Tom Kizzia
pagenum: 77; label: A Song of Ice
title: Elizabeth Kolbert
pagenum: 93; label: Something Uneasy in the Los Angeles Air
title: Adrian Glick Kudler
pagenum: 115; label: Dark Science
title: Omar Mouallem
pagenum: 123; label: The Parks of Tomorrow
title: Michelle Nijhuis
pagenum: 131; label: How Factory Farms Play Chicken with Antibiotics
title: Tom Philpott
pagenum: 138; label: The Invisible Catastrophe
title: Nathaniel Rich
pagenum: 151; label: The Devil is in the Details
title: Christopher Solomon
pagenum: 167; label: The Physics Pioneer Who Walked Away from it All
title: Sally Davies
pagenum: 189; label: The Diy Scientist, The Olympian, and the Mutated Gene
title: David Epstein
pagenum: 205; label: Inside the Breakthrough Starshot Mission to Alpha Centauri
title: Ann Finkbeiner
pagenum: 223; label: He Fell in Love With His Good Student -- Then Fired Her For it
title: Azeen Ghorayshi
pagenum: 234; label: The Woman Who Might Find Us Another Earth
title: Chris Jones
pagenum: 241; label: Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream
title: Katrhryn Joyce
pagenum: 258; label: The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort of) Rattled the Scientific Community
title: Jon Mooallem
pagenum: 271; label: The Man Who Gave Himself Away
title: Michael Regnier
pagenum: 285; label: Unfriendly Climate
title: Sonia Smith
pagenum: 296; label: It's Time These Ancient Women Scientists Get Their Due
title: Emily Temple-Wood
pagenum: 311; label: Contributors’ Notes
pagenum: 317; label: Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2016
pagenum: 321