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The Best American Essays 2009

10 best books like The Best American Essays 2009 (Mary Oliver): Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013, Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil, Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
AuthorRobert A. Caro
ISBN0525656340
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books

For the first time in his long career, Robert...
Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance
AuthorBernie Sanders
ISBN1250299098
"This is not a time for despair. This is not a time for depression. This is a time to stand up and fight back."

I had the opportunity to see Bernie Sanders speak in Pittsburgh this Sunday and so it was terrific timing that the library copy of this e-book became available Saturday night. However,...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013
AuthorSiddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN0544003438
The Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2013.

This collection of twenty-seven articles was edited by Siddhartha Mukherjee, a scientist and author of the runaway bestseller “The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”. He did a great job of choosing which ones to include here.

There...
Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
AuthorPaul Bloom
ISBN0307886840
From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society—and especially parents—to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized...
Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly
AuthorSue Halpern
Every autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as far north as Canada to Mexico. Memory is not their guide — no one butterfly makes the round trip — but each year somehow find their way to the same fifty acres of forest on the high slopes of Mexico’s Neovolcanic Mountains,...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007
AuthorRichard Preston
ISBN0618722319
"Science is about not knowing and wanting badly to know. Science is about flawed and complicated human beings trying to use whatever tools they've got, along with their minds, to see something strange and new. In that sense, writing about science is just another way of writing about the human condition."...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008
AuthorJerome Groopman
ISBN0618834478
“The articles . . . draw the reader more tightly into the web of the world. They forge links in unexpected ways. They connect us to nature and to each other, and those connections nourish the intellect and uplift the spirit.”—Jerome Groopman, M.D., editor

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012
AuthorDan Ariely
ISBN0547799535
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...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011
AuthorMary Roach
ISBN0547350635
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...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015
AuthorRebecca Skloot
The Best American Series
 
The next edition in a series praised as “undeniably exquisite” (Maria Popova), The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 includes work from both award-winning writers and up-and-coming voices in the field. From Brooke Jarvis on deep-ocean mining...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006
AuthorBrian Greene
In his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006, Brian Greene writes that "science needs to be recognized for what it is: the ultimate in adventure stories."

The twenty-five pieces in this year's collection take you on just such an adventure. Natalie Angier probes...
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
AuthorCharles Fishman
ISBN1501106295
The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon.

President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more...
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
AuthorMatthew B. Crawford
ISBN1594202230
A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands

Called "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" (The Boston Globe), Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, attracting readers with its radical (and timely)...
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