The best American science and nature writing 2017

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The best American science and nature writing 2017 / edited and with an introduction by Hope Jahren ; Tim Folger, series editor.

Jahren, Hope, (editor.). Folger, Tim, (editor.). Everts, Sarah. Art of saving relics. (Added Author). Konnikova, Maria. Altered tastes. (Added Author). Tingley, Kim. Secrets of the wave pilots. (Added Author). Twilley, Nicola. Billion-year wave. (Added Author). Cudmore, Becca. Case for leaving city rats alone. (Added Author). Draper, Robert. Battle for Virunga. (Added Author). Kizzia, Tom. New harpoon. (Added Author). Kolbert, Elizabeth. Song of ice. (Added Author). Kudler, Adrian Glick. Something uneasy in the Los Angeles air. (Added Author). Mouallem, Omar, 1985- Dark science. (Added Author).

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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.

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ISBN: 9781328715517
ISBN: 1328715515
Physical Description: xx, 324 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Copyright: ©2017

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General Note:: "A Mariner original."
Formatted Contents Note:: 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.

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