The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2020
By: Michio Kaku
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A collection of the best science and nature writing published in North America in 2019, guest edite…
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1. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
By: Aldo Leopold
4.30
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
- science
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
2. Arctic Dreams
By: Barry Lopez
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more
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3. Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
By: Penny Le Couteur , Jay Burreson
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Though many factors have been proposed to explain the failure of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign, … read more
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4. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010
By: Freeman Dyson , Tim Folger
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Freeman Dyson, renowned physicist and public intellectual, edits this year's volume of the finest s… read more
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5. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011
By: Mary Roach , Tim Folger
4.42
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
The Best American Series(r) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier a… read more
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6. How Long 'til Black Future Month?
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and dra… read more
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- short stories
- anthologies
"Still. Marching."-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"I’ll take the dreams,"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"I need to talk to you,"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"The monster is amused to be found monstrous"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
7. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
8. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
By: Timothy Egan
4.13
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken nat… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Of all the foes which attack the woodlands of North America, no other is so terrible as fire."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Ideas take on their own trajectory, but they die without people to carry them into the corridors of power."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Onward and upward he pushed until rock, ground, and forest came to an end, until there was nothing but a sharp edge of blunt earth protruding in the late light of the range, where he could see well b…"-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
9. Attack Surface (Little Brother, #3)
By: Cory Doctorow
3.94
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Cory Doctorow's Attack Surface is a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers… read more
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"Masha, I know you think that the ‘struggle for justice’ is a corny fantasy, but you live in a world where people have weekends, don’t get maimed on the job, and have constitutional rights, at least s…"-Cory Doctorow, Attack Surface (Little Brother, #3)
10. On Animals
By: Susan Orlean
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer and the author of the New York Times bestseller Th… read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
- science
"I know now that even though dogs break your heart, they fill it up, even when they're gone."-Susan Orlean, On Animals
11. Having and Being Had
By: Eula Biss
3.83
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
"My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned … read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Art unmakes the world made by work."-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Not having money is time consuming. There are hours spent at laundromats, hours at bus stops, hours at free clinics, hours at thrift stores, hours on the phone with the bank or the credit card compan…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Why is water so often a metaphor for money? Perhaps because we like to believe that our economic system is naturally occurring, not man-made. Maybe the movement of money feels inevitable if you imagi…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Some people choose their precarity - evidence that precarity is not just a condition of our time, but a response to it. The precariat includes people who have forgone stable employment and retirement…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
12. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
By: Justin Gregg
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcoming… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- science
13. Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day
By: Dan Nott
4.23
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
We use water, electricity, and the internet every day--but how do they actually work? And what’s th… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- science
14. The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2018
By: Sam Kean
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science,” New York Times -bestselling aut… read more
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- anthologies
- nonfiction
- essays
- science nature
- environment
- nature
- science
15. The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2020
By: Michio Kaku
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A collection of the best science and nature writing published in North America in 2019, guest edite… read more
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- health
- medicine
- anthologies
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- science nature
- environment
- nature
- science
16. The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2021
By: Ed Yong
3.94
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
New York Times best-selling author and renowned science journalist Ed Yong compiles the best scienc… read more
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- medicine
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- essays
- science nature
- environment
- nature
- science
17. The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2019
By: Sy Montgomery
4.18
Format: 361 pages, Paperback
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous … read more
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- anthologies
- nonfiction
- essays
- science nature
- environment
- nature
- science
18. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
By: Carl Zimmer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essa… read more
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- anthologies
- nonfiction
- essays
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19. The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2022
By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor reno… read more
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- environment
- nature
- science
20. The Best American Essays 2020
By: Robert Atwan
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year’s best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller… read more
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- anthologies
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21. China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine
By: Rosemary Gibson
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it--and pharmaceut… read more
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