(Ebook) The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 (The Best American Series) by Judy Alter, Debra L. Winegarten, Sy Montgomery, Philip Ball, Rebecca Boyle, Peter Brannen, Chris Colin, Douglas Fox, Connor Gearin, Ben Goldfarb, Gary Greenberg, Jeramy Hance, Holly Haworth, Eva Holland, Apricot Irving, Rowan Jacobsen ISBN 9781328519009, 9781328519016, 1328519007, 1328519015

(Ebook) The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 (The Best American Series) by Judy Alter, Debra L. Winegarten, Sy Montgomery, Philip Ball, Rebecca Boyle, Peter Brannen, Chris Colin, Douglas Fox, Connor Gearin, Ben Goldfarb, Gary Greenberg, Jeramy Hance, Holly Haworth, Eva Holland, Apricot Irving, Rowan Jacobsen ISBN 9781328519009, 9781328519016, 1328519007, 1328519015

Sy Montgomery edits this year’s vol. of the finest science & nature writing. “Science is important because this is how we seek to discover the truth about the world. And this is what makes excellent science & nature writing essential,” observes Sy Montgomery. “Science & nature writing are how we share the truth about the universe with the people of the world.” And collected here are truths about nearly every corner of the universe. From meditations on extinction, to the search for alien life, to the prejudice that infects our medical system, the pieces in this year’s Best American Science a&nd Nature Writing seek to bring to the people stories of some of the most pressing issues facing our planet, as well as moments of wonder reflecting the immense beauty our natural world offersBALL: A Compassionate Substance
BOYLE: The Search for Alien Life Begins in Earth’s Oldest Desert
BRANNEN: Glimpses of a Mass Extinction in Modern-Day Western New YorkCOLIN: This Sand Is Your Sand
FOX: The Brain, Reimagined
GEARIN: Little Golden Flower-Room: On Wild Places & Intimacy
GOLDFARB: The Endling: Watching a Species Vanish in Real Time
GREENBERG: What If the Placebo Effect Is Not a Trick?
HANCE: The Great Rhino U-Turn
HAWORTH: The Fading Stars: A Constellation
HOLLAND: Saving Baby Boy Green
IRVING: The Fire at Eagle Creek
JACOBSEN: Deleting a Species
JARVIS: The Insect Apocalypse Is Here
JONES: No Heart, No Moon
KRAJICK: The Scientific Detectives Probing the Secrets of Ancient Oracles
MACKINNON: You Really Don’t Want to Know What It’s Like to Be a Right Whale These Days
MCKIBBEN: How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet
MEAD: The Story of a Face OSBERG: How to Not Die in America ROTHMAN: Why Paper Jams PersistMICHAEL SMITH: The Professor of Horrible DeedsSTIRONE: Welcome to the Center of the Universe
VILLAROSA: The Hidden Toll: Why Are Black Mothers and Babies in the United States Dying at More Than Double the Rate of White Mothers and Babies? YONG: When the Next