{"product_id":"0544748999-the_best_american_science_and_nature_writing2016","title":"The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eScience 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016\u003c\/i\u003e. “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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016\u003c\/i\u003e includes Kathryn Schulz, Sarah Maslin Nir, Charles C. Mann, Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Kolbert, Gretel Ehrlich, and others\u003cbr\u003eAmy Stewart, guest editor, is the award-winning author of seven books, including her acclaimed Kopp Sisters novels and the bestsellers \u003ci\u003eThe Drunken Botanist\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWicked Plants. \u003c\/i\u003eShe and her husband live in Eureka, California, where they own a bookstore called Eureka Books.\u003cbr\u003eTim Folger, series editor, is a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eDiscover\u003c\/i\u003e and writes about science for several magazines. He lives in Gallup, New Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEngineering \u0026amp; Transportation\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEngineering\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCivil \u0026amp; Environmental\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eEnvironmental\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":47597273874622,"sku":"0544748999-3","price":11.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/61C2BwUni-L.jpg?v=1780331772","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0544748999-the_best_american_science_and_nature_writing2016","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}