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The best American science and nature writing 2019, edited and with an introduction by Sy Montgomery ; Jaime Green, series editor

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The best American science and nature writing 2019, edited and with an introduction by Sy Montgomery ; Jaime Green, series editor

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eng

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no index present

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non fiction

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The best American science and nature writing 2019

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dictionaries

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1119628783

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edited and with an introduction by Sy Montgomery ; Jaime Green, series editor

Series statement

The best American series

Summary

Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing

Table Of Contents

Front Cover; Front Matter; Half Title; Guest Editors of The Best American Science and Nature Writing; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Philip Ball: A Compassionate Substance; Rebecca Boyle: The Search for Alien Life Begins in Earth's Oldest Desert; Peter Brannen: Glimpses of a Mass Extinction in Modern-Day Western New York; Chris Colin: This Sand Is Your Sand from Outside; Douglas Fox: The Brain, Reimagined; Hot Nerves; Fatty Liquid Becomes Chrystal; Anesthesia Explained; No Tolerance for Debate; IdeologuesConor Gearin: Little Golden Flower-Room: On Wild Places and IntimacyBen Goldfarb: The Endling: Watching a Species Vanish in Real Time; Gary Greenberg: What If the Placebo Effect Is Not a Trick?; Jeremy Hance: The Great Rhino U-Turn; Last Chance for the US; Cracking It; The Cincinnati Effect; Fast-Forwarding; Holly Haworth: The Fading Stars: A Constellation; Eva Holland: Saving Baby Boy Green; Apricot Irving: The Fire at Eagle Creek; Rowan Jacobsen: Deleting a Species; Brooke Jarvis: The Insect Apocalypse Is Here; Matt Jones: No Heart, No MoonKevin Krajick: The Scientific Detectives Probing the Secrets of Ancient OraclesJ. B. MacKinnon: You Really Don't Want to Know What It's Like to Be a Right Whale These Days; Bill McKibben: How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet; Rebecca Mead: The Story of a Face; Molly Osberg: How to Not Die in America; Joshua Rothman: Why Paper Jams Persist; Jordan Michael Smith: The Professor of Horrible Deeds; Shannon Stirone: Welcome to the Center of the UniverseLinda Villarosa: The Hidden Toll: Why Are Black Mothers and Babies in the United States Dying at More Than Double the Rate of White Mothers and Babies? The Answer Has Everything to Do with the Lived Experience of Being a Black Woman in AmericaEd Yong: When the Next Plague Hits; Ilana Yurkiewicz: Paper Trails: Living and Dying with Fragmented Medical Records; Back Matter; Contributors' Notes; Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2018; The Best American Series; Back Cover; Spine

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Science and nature writing 2019

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