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