The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020 (Kaku Michio)(Paperback)

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020 (Kaku Michio)(Paperback)

A collection of the best science and nature writing published in North America in 2019, guest edited by New York Times best-selling author and ground-breaking physicist Dr. Michio Kaku. Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most influential living scientists and a New York Times best-selling author, selects

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021 (Yong Ed)(Paperback)

New York Times best-selling author and renowned science journalist Ed Yong compiles the best science and nature writing published in 2020. 'The stories I have chosen reflect where I feel the field of science and nature writing has landed, and where it could go,' Ed Yong writes in his introduction

The Best American Magazine Writing 2020 (Holt Sid)(Paperback)

The Best American Magazine Writing 2020 brings together outstanding writing, from in-depth reporting to incisive criticism. The anthology features excerpts from major projects that challenge American certitudes: the Washington Post Magazine's 'Prison' issue, detailing the scope of mass

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 (Montgomery Sy)(Paperback)

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. 'Science is important because this is how we seek to discover the truth about the world. And this is what makes excellent

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017 (Jahren Hope)(Paperback)

'Undeniably exquisite . . . Reveal[s] not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.' --Maria Popova 'An excellent introduction to the key issues in science today.' --P. D. Smith, Guardian '[A] stellar compendium . . . Delightful to read.' --Publishers

The Best American Sports Writing 2020 (Macmullan Jackie)(Paperback)

The latest addition to the acclaimed series showcasing the best sports writing from the past year. For over twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has built a solid reputation by showcasing the greatest sports journalism of the previous year, culled from hundreds of national, regional,

The Best American Food Writing 2020 (Lpez-Alt J. Kenji)(Paperback)

The year's top food writing from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country. J. Kenji L pez-Alt, best-selling author and winner of numerous awards, selects the year's top food writing from writers who celebrate the

The Best American Magazine Writing 2019 (Holt Sid)(Paperback)

The Best American Magazine Writing 2019 presents articles honored by this year's National Magazine Awards, showcasing outstanding writing that addresses urgent topics such as justice, gender, power, and violence, both at home and abroad. The anthology features remarkable reporting, including the

Stronger, Truer, Bolder: American Children's Writing, Nature, and the Environment (Kilcup Karen L.)(Paperback)

Ernest Hemingway on Writing (Phillips Larry W.)(Paperback)

An assemblage of reflections on the nature of writing and the writer from one the greatest American writers of the twentieth century.Throughout Hemingway's career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing--that it takes off 'whatever butterflies have on their wings and

The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 (Box C. J.)(Paperback)

A collection of the year's best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box. C. J. Box, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this

The Best American Poetry 2020 (Lehman David)(Paperback)

The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is 'a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title' (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series has been

The Best American Travel Writing 2019 (Wilson Jason)(Paperback)

An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2018, collected by Alexandra Fuller. BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives, all exploring what it means to travel somewhere new. For the past two decades, readers have come to

The Best American Food Writing 2019 (Nosrat Samin)(Paperback)

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times best-selling author and James Beard Award winner Samin Nosrat collects the year's finest writing about food and drink. 'Good food writing evokes the senses,' writes Samin Nosrat, best-selling author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and star of the Netflix adaptation of

The Best American Food Writing 2021 (Hamilton Gabrielle)(Paperback)

The year's top food writing, from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country. Edited by Silvia Killingsworth and renowned chef and author Gabrielle Hamilton. 'A year that stopped our food world in its tracks,' writes

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 (Adams John Joseph)(Paperback)

'This volume showcases the nuanced, playful, ever-expanding definitions of the genre and celebrates its current renaissance.' --Washington Post Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts. But what

Einstein's Cosmos - How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time (Kaku Michio)(Paperback / softback)

The Best American Travel Writing 2021 (Lakshmi Padma)(Paperback)

'The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person's experience in some other physical place and culture,' writes Padma Lakshmi in her introduction, 'and, at its best, evokes a palpable feeling of being in a specific moment in time and space.' The essays in this

The Best American Essays 2020 (Aciman Andr)(Paperback)

A collection of the year's best essays selected by Andr Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your

Proud to Be, 8: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 8 (Brubaker James)(Paperback)

The anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors showcases writing from military veterans and their families from across the nation, including writing about WWI and WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf Conflict, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The anthology is the seventh in an annual series published by

The Best American Food Writing 2018 (Reichl Ruth)(Paperback)

'Food writing is stepping out,' legendary food writer Ruth Reichl declares at the start of this, the inaugural edition of Best American Food Writing. 'It's about time...Food is, in a very real sense, redesigning the world.' Indeed, the twenty-eight pieces in this volume touch on every pillar of

Clean: The New Science of Skin (Hamblin James)(Pevná vazba)

Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR and Vanity Fair One of Smithsonian's Ten Best Science Books of 2020'A searching and vital explication of germ theory, social norms, and what the modern era is really doing to our bodies and our psyches.' --Vanity Fair A preventative medicine physician and staff

Race and the Making of American Political Science (Blatt Jessica)(Paperback)

Race and the Making of American Political Science shows that changing scientific ideas about racial difference were central to the academic study of politics as it emerged in the United States. From the late nineteenth century through the 1930s, scholars of politics defined and continually

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 (Adams John Joseph)(Paperback)

This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories published in the last year. By sending us to