Foreword --Introduction --A journey into the animal mind (from The Atlantic) /Ross Andersen --Sleep no more (from Wind) /Kelly Clancy --What remains (from the California Sunday magazine) /Daniel Duane --With a simple twist, a "Magic" material is now the big thing in physics (from Quanta magazine) /D
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012
โ Scribed by Ariely, Dan (editor)
- Book ID
- 108873413
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 555 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780547799537
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โฆ Synopsis
The Best American Seriesยฎ
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 โ and most popular โ of its kind.
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012 includes
JEROME GROOPMAN, SY MONTGOMERY, MICHAEL BEHAR, DEBORAH BLUM, THOMAS GOETZ, DAVID EAGLEMAN, RIVKA GALCHEN, DAVID KIRBY, and others
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**"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 jour
**"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 Prizewinning journalist an