The Best American Travel Writing 2006
10 best books like The Best American Travel Writing 2006 (Tim Cahill): The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future, The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013, The Best American Essays 2006, The Best American Essays 2008, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Author | Brian Greene |
ISBN | 0965900584 |
From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.
Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the...
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Author | Pete Buttigieg |
ISBN | 1631494368 |
Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation’s most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American...
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
Author | Brian Greene |
ISBN | 0307265633 |
From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to date—a book that takes on the grandest question: Is ours the only universe?
There was a time when “universe” meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent...
Author | Siddhartha Mukherjee |
ISBN | 0544003438 |
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...
Author | Lauren Slater |
ISBN | 0618705295 |
"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....
Author | Adam Gopnik |
ISBN | 0618983228 |
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...
Author | Richard Preston |
ISBN | 0618722319 |
"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."...
Author | Dan Ariely |
ISBN | 0547799535 |
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...
Author | Mary Roach |
ISBN | 0547350635 |
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 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...
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...
Author | David Foster Wallace |
ISBN | 0618709274 |
The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative -- in first and third person -- opinion,...