The Best of the Best American Science Writing - Softcover

Cohen, Jesse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061875007 ISBN 13: 9780061875007

Publisher: Ecco Press, 2010

Synopsis

Honoring the 10th anniversary of Ecco's acclaimed Best American Science Writing series, here is Best of the Best of American Science Writing. The ten previous guest editors--including Oliver Sacks, Natalie Angier, Alan Lightman, Sylvia Nasar, and Matt Ridley--have selected their favorite essays for this one-of-a-kind anthology; eye-opening and provocative gems that, collectively, are truly the Best of the Best of American Science Writing.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

For a decade, Ecco has published the most outstanding science writing in America, collected in highly acclaimed annual volumes edited by some of the most impressive and most important names in science and science writing today: James Gleick, Timothy Ferris, Matt Ridley, Oliver Sacks, Dava Sobel, Alan Lightman, Atul Gawande, Gina Kolata, Sylvia Nasar, and Natalie Angier.

Now series editor Jesse Cohen invites the previous guest editors to select their favorite essays for this one-of-a-kind anthology. The result is an outstanding compendium--the best science writing of the new millennium, featuring an introduction by the series' 2010 editor and New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman.

About the Author:

Jesse Cohen is a writer and freelance editor. He lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061875007
• ISBN 13: 9780061875007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400