Best american science nature writin - 2005

Informationen zum Autor TIM FOLGER is a contributing editor at Discover and writes about science for several magazines. He lives in New Mexico. Klappentext 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 or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005 includes: Natalie Angier • Jared Diamond • Timothy Ferris • Malcolm Gladwell • Jerome Groopman • Bill McKibben • Sherwin P. Nuland • Jeffrey M. O'Brien • Oliver Sacks • Michael J. Sandel • William Speed Weed • and more Jonathan Weiner, guest editor, has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and many other honors. He lives in New York City and teaches science writing at the Columbia School of Journalism. Zusammenfassung 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 or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005 includes: Natalie Angier • Jared Diamond • Timothy Ferris • Malcolm Gladwell • Jerome Groopman • Bill McKibben • Sherwin P. Nuland • Jeffrey M. O'Brien • Oliver Sacks • Michael J. Sandel • William Speed Weed • and more Jonathan Weiner, guest editor, has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and many other honors. He lives in New York City and teaches science writing at the Columbia School of Journalism....

Product details

• Authors: Tim Folger, Jonathan Weiner
• Assisted by: Tim Folger (Editor), Jonathan Weiner (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2005
• EAN: 9780618273430
• ISBN: 978-0-618-27343-0
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Best American Science & Nature; Best American; Best American Science & Nature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Evolution, NATURE: Animals / General, TRAVEL: Essays & Travelogues, SCIENCE: Earth Sciences / General, SCIENCE: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Botany, SCIENCE: Natural History, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Zoology / General, NATURE: Plants / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Journalism, SCIENCE: Earth Sciences / Geology