{"product_id":"9780544748996","title":"The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016","description":"\u003cp\u003eScience 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016\u003c\/i\u003e. “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.\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016\u003c\/i\u003e includes Kathryn Schulz, Sarah Maslin Nir, Charles C. Mann, Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Kolbert, Gretel Ehrlich, and others Amy Stewart, guest editor, is the award-winning author of seven books, including her acclaimed Kopp Sisters novels and the bestsellers \u003ci\u003eThe Drunken Botanist\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWicked Plants. \u003c\/i\u003eShe and her husband live in Eureka, California, where they own a bookstore called Eureka Books. Tim Folger, series editor, is a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eDiscover\u003c\/i\u003e and writes about science for several magazines. He lives in Gallup, New Mexico. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012362322160,"sku":"9780544748996","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544748996_p0.jpg?v=1763713338","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544748996","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}