“A stimulating compendium” on topics from antibiotics to animals, featuring Rebecca Solnit, E.O. Wilson, Nicholas Carr, Elizabeth Kolbert, and many more (Kirkus Reviews).   “A consistently strong series . . . Making connections between seemingly unrelated topics can help expand thinking, as seen in the effects of automated navigation on both airplane pilot error and Inuit hunting accidents that Nicholas Carr explores in ‘The Great Forgetting.’ Sarah Stewart Johnson makes a similar connection between the loss of a 1912 Antarctic expedition and the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in ‘O-Rings.’ . . . Essays like Virginia Hughes’s ‘23 and You’ investigates the effects of availability of individual genetic information on human interactions, while pieces like Maryn McKenna’s ‘Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future’ and Kate Sheppard’s ‘Under Water’ remind us of unpleasant futures which we have in large part created ourselves. But Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Where it Begins,’ a lyrical musing on connectedness, or Wilson’s optimistic, bug-loving ‘The Rebirth of Gorongosa,’ reveal that among the strange, shocking, or depressing, there is still unadulterated joy to be found.” —Publishers Weekly   “Undeniably exquisite . . . meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings   Contributors include: Katherine Bagley • Nicholas Carr • David Dobbs • Pippa Goldschmidt • Amy Harmon • Robin Marantz Henig • Virginia Hughes • Ferris Jabr • Sarah Stewart Johnson • Barbara J. King • Barbara Kingsolver • Maggie Koerth-Baker • Elizabeth Kolbert • Joshua Lang • Maryn McKenna • Seth Mnookin • Justin Nobel • Fred Pearce • Corey S. Powell • Roy Scranton • Kate Sheppard • Bill Sherwonit • Rebecca Solnit • David Treuer • E.O. Wilson • Carl Zimmer

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Deborah Blum; Katherine Bagley; Nicholas G Carr; David Dobbs; Pippa Goldschmidt; Amy Harmon; Robin Marantz Henig; Ferris Jabr; Sarah Stewart Johnson; Barbara J King

Blum, Deborah; Kolbert, Elizabeth; Wilson, E. O.; Solnit, Rebecca; Kingsolver, Barbara; Carr, Nicholas; Mnookin, Seth; Zimmer, Carl; Pearce, Fred

Deborah Blum; Elizabeth Kolbert; E. O. Wilson; Rebecca Solnit; Barbara Kingsolver; Nicholas Carr; Seth Mnookin; Carl Zimmer; Fred Pearce

edited and with an introduction by Deborah Blum; Tim Folger, series editor

Publisher not identified

Holt, Rinehart & Winston

Mariner Books

The best American series, Best American series, Massachusetts, 2014

Best American series, Boston [Massachusetts, 2014

Best American series, 2018 edition, Boston, 2018

Best American series, 2017 edition, Boston, 2017

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., [N.p.], 2014

Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2014

Place of publication not identified, 2014

United States, United States of America

2014 ed., PT, 2014

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http://www.hmhco.com/

"A Mariner original."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-318).

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.

"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.

Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2013, including works by such authors as Katherine Bagley, Barbara Kingsolver, Fred Pearce, and Carl Zimmer

Presents an anthology of the best science and nature writing published in the previous year, selected from American periodicals

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