The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016

Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her introduction to <em>The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016</em>. But at the end of the day we're all writers . . . We're here to play for the folks. The writers in this anthology brought us the year's highest notes in the genre. From a Pulitzer Prize-winning essay on the earthquake that could decimate the Pacific Northwest to the astonishing work of investigative journalism that transformed the nail salon industry this is a collection of hard-hitting and beautifully composed writing on the wonders dangers and oddities of scientific innovation and our natural world. <p/><em>The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016</em> includes Kathryn Schulz Sarah Maslin Nir Charles C. Mann Oliver Sacks Elizabeth Kolbert Gretel Ehrlich and others <p/>Amy Stewart guest editor is the award-winning author of seven books including her acclaimed Kopp Sisters novels and the bestsellers <em>The Drunken Botanist</em> and <em>Wicked Plants. </em>She and her husband live in Eureka California where they own a bookstore called Eureka Books. <p/>Tim Folger series editor is a contributing editor at <em>Discover</em> and writes about science for several magazines. He lives in Gallup New Mexico. <br>