The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016

8 best books like The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 (Amy Stewart): The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy, The Best American Travel Writing 2016, Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them, The Haj, Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us, Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic

The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible

Author	Catherine Burns
ISBN	1101904429

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth--and featuring contributions from Meg Wolitzer, Adam Gopnik, Krista Tippett, Andrew Solomon, Rosanne Cash, Ophira Eisenberg, Wang Ping, and more--a new collection of unforgettable true stories about finding the...

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Author

Richard Dawkins

The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field to his own provocative views. Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's Tale takes us modern humans...

Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy

Author	Fergus Fleming
ISBN	0871138042

Barrow's Boys is a spellbinding account of perilous journeys to uncharted areas under the most challenging conditions. Re-creating the successes and harrowing failures of the original extreme adventurers, Fergus Fleming captures the incredibly brave, and often downright insane, passion for...

The Best American Travel Writing 2016

Author

Bill Bryson

Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2016, and though he admits, “I wasn’t at all sure I knew the answer,” they are questions worthy of examination. While the various contributors to this collection...

Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them

Author	Ted Danson
ISBN	1605292621

Most people know Ted Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-running
television series Cheers. But fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half
decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global
catastrophe—the...

The Haj

Author	Leon Uris
ISBN	0553248642

Leon Uris retums to the land of his acclaimed  best-seller Exodus for an epic  story of hate and love, vengeance and forgiveness and  forgiveness. The Middle East is the powerful  setting for this sweeping tale of a land where revenge  is sacred and hatred noble. Where an Arab ruler  tries...

Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us

Author	Joe Palca
ISBN	0470638699

Two crackerjack science journalists from NPR look at why some things (and some people!) drive us crazy.

It happens everywhere - offices, schools, even your own backyard. Plus, seemingly anything can trigger it - cell phones, sirens, bad music, constant distractions, your boss, or even your...

Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic

Author

Matt McCarthy

Physician, researcher, and ethics professor Matt McCarthy is on the front lines of a groundbreaking clinical trial testing a new antibiotic to fight lethal superbugs, bacteria that have built up resistance to the life-saving drugs in our rapidly dwindling arsenal. This trial serves as the backdrop...