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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...
The Best American Travel Writing 2009
AuthorSimon Winchester
ISBN0618858660
**Heh, 3.5 stars if GoodReads had such a thing**

I tethered with the rating on this one because some of the essays were non-memorable and almost boring, not bothering to uncover the travel experience through narrator experience and setting authenticity.

Yet some were indeed memorable....
The Best American Short Stories 2003
AuthorWalter Mosley
ISBN0618197338
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
The Best American Essays 2006
AuthorLauren Slater
ISBN0618705295
"The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. "They reflect the best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, which is reflection in a context of kindness....
The Best American Essays 2012
AuthorRobert Atwan
ISBN0547840098
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 Essays 2003
AuthorAnne Fadiman
ISBN0618341617
Since 1986, The Best American Essays has gathered the most interesting and provocative writing of the year, establishing a firm place as the leading annual of its kind. The volume is edited each year by an esteemed writer who brings a fresh eye to the selections. Previous editors have included Elizabeth...
The Best American Essays 2008
AuthorAdam Gopnik
ISBN0618983228
Here you will find the finest essays “judiciously selected from countless publications” (Chicago Tribune), ranging from The New Yorker and Harper’s to Swink and Pinch. In his introduction to this year’s edition, Adam Gopnik finds that great essays have “text and inner text, personal...
The Best American Essays 2011
AuthorEdwidge Danticat
ISBN0547479778
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 Essays 2004
AuthorLouis Menand
ISBN0618357092
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
The Best American Essays 2005
AuthorSusan Orlean
ISBN0618357130
The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty...
The Best American Mystery Stories 2006
AuthorScott Turow
"[Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you." -- from the introduction by Scott Turow

Best-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for...
The Best American Essays 2009
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0618982728
Addendum to original review, explaining why I have downgraded this to two stars - (italicized material below):

My second criticism is probably more a reflection of my personal taste, and may not be shared by other readers. But I felt that Mary Oliver's background as a poet shone through, with...
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 2009
AuthorElizabeth Kolbert
ISBN0547002599
I know 'green' is the new hot thing, but this collection seriously suffered from a huge overemphasis on articles about the environment. I'm happy to read them, but I also want to read about physics and neurology and mathematics and biochemistry and other fields I don't even know about! The articles in...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003
AuthorRichard Dawkins
ISBN0618178929
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundred of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
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

This year’s Best American...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010
AuthorFreeman Dyson
ISBN0547327846
An excellent book in an excellent series. Reading and reviewing it now, some of the information is dated: for example, Dr. Dyson cheerily states that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to increased growth in plants, and the latest data in 2015 indicate that any benefit from more CO2 is offset...
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 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...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0618082956
With The Best American Science and Nature Writing, Houghton Mifflin expands its stellar Best American series with a volume that honors our long and distinguished history of publishing the best writers in these fields.
David Quammen, together with series editor Burkhard Bilger, has assembled...
The Best American Mystery Stories 2009
AuthorJeffery Deaver
ISBN0547237502
I don't care much for the short story. A master's program in writing will do that to you. Every group has at least five earnest twits trying to be the next Raymond Carver and get their dreary present-tense tale of post-modern angst published in The Atlantic Monthly.

There are two kinds of people...
The Best American Science Writing 2007
AuthorGina Kolata
ISBN0061345776
Provocative and engaging, this collection brings together the premiere science writing of the year. Featuring the imprimatur of bestselling author and New York Times reporter Gina Kolata, one of the nation's foremost voices in science and medicine, and with contributions from Atul Gawande, Elizabeth...
The Best American Science Writing 2006
AuthorAtul Gawande
"Money and politics taint everything"
(A pearl of wisdom)

About a year ago I reviewed here on Goodreads The Best American Science Writing 2005 , a marginally recommended read that includes unquestionable jewels such as Frank Wilczek's essay Whence the Force of F = ma or Small Silences...
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