The Best American Science and Nature Writing

Brief Description: Presents fictional and non-fictional stories written by American authors that discuss topics in science and nature. Table of Contents: Foreword / Tim Folger -- Introduction / Deborah Blum -- Mixed Up / Katherine Bagley. -- The Great Forgetting / Nicholas Carr. -- The Social Life of Genes / David Dobbs. -- What Our Telescopes Couldn't See / Pippa Goldschmidt. -- A Race to Save the Orange by Altering Its DNA / Amy Harmon. -- A Life-or-Death Situation / Robin Marantz Henig. -- 23 and You / Virginia Hughes. -- Why the Brain Prefers Paper / Ferris Jabr. -- O-Rings / Sarah Stewart Johnson. -- When Animals Mourn / Barbara J. King. -- Where It Begins / Barbara Kingsolver. -- Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You to Death! / Maggie Koerth-Baker. -- The Lost World / Elizabeth Kolbert. -- Awakening / Joshua Lang. -- Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future / Maryn McKenna. -- The Return of Measles / Seth Mnookin. -- Ants Go Marching / Justin Nobel. -- TV as Birth Control / Fred Pearce. -- The Madness of the Planets / Corey S. Powell. -- Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene / Roy Scranton. -- Under Water / Kate Sheppard. -- Twelve Ways of Viewing Alaska's Wild, White Sheep / Bill Sherwonit. -- The Separating Sickness / Rebecca Solnit. -- Trapline / David Treuer. -- The Rebirth of Gorongosa / E. O. Wilson. -- Bringing Them Back to Life / Carl Zimmer. -- Contributors' Notes -- Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2013. Publisher Marketing:"Undeniably exquisite . . . The essays in the collection [are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity." -- Maria Popova, "Brain Pickings""A stimulating compendium." -- "Kirkus Reviews"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Deborah Blum 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. Review Citations:

Library Journal 10/01/2014 pg. 106 (EAN 9780544003422, Paperback) - *Starred Review

Publishers Weekly 09/22/2014 (EAN 9780544003422, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Blum, Deborah DEBORAH BLUM is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and the author of five books, including The Poisoner's Handbook. She writes about environmental chemistry for The New York Times at Poison Pen and is a blogger for Wired at Elemental.