The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011: The Best American Series by Mary Roach, Tim Folger Popular columnist and science writer Mary Roach selects the year's best science and nature writing. Format: eBook ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780547678467 ISBN-10: 0547678460 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 10/04/2011 Carton Quantity: 1
About the Book About the Authors About the Book The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 includes Atul Gawande, Jonathan Franzen, Deborah Blum, Malcolm Gladwell, Oliver Sacks, Jon Mooallem, Jon Cohen, Luke Dittrich, and others Subjects Essays Essays Related Subjects Science Nonfiction Best of New Nonfiction Science Nature Environment About the Author Mary Roach Mary Roach is the best-selling author of Stiff, Spook, Bonk, and most recently, Packing for Mars. Her writing has appeared in Salon, Wired, Outside, GQ, Discover, Vogue, and the New York Times Magazine. Tim Folger TIM FOLGER is a contributing editor at Discover and writes about science for several magazines. He lives in New Mexico. Excerpts Reviews