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  • Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 1328987809
    • ISBN: 9781328987808
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    “This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science,” New York Times-bestselling author Sam Kean proclaims in his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. “Things aren’t perfect by any means. But there are more scientists making more discoveries in more places about more things than ever before.” Th... [Read More]

  • Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 1328715515
    • ISBN: 1328715515
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    “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 Weekly, starred review A renown... [Read More]

  • Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544748999
    • ISBN: 9780544748996
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    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 The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016. “But at the end of the day, we’re all writers . . . We’re here to play for the folks.” The writers in this anthology b... [Read More]

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 054428674X
    • ISBN: 054428674X
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    The Best American Series   The next edition in a series praised as “undeniably exquisite” (Maria Popova), The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 includes work from both award-winning writers and up-and-coming voices in the field. From Brooke Jarvis on deep-ocean mining to Elizabeth Kolbert on New Zealand’s unconventional conserv... [Read More]

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 1328519007
    • ISBN: 1328519007
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    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.New York Times best-selling author of How to Be a Good Creature, The Soul of an Octopus, The Good Good Pig, and more, Sy Montgomery, selects the year’s top science and nature writing from write... [Read More]

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547327846
    • ISBN: 9780547327846
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Freeman Dyson, renowned physicist and public intellectual, edits this year’s volume of the finest science and nature writing.

  • The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019

    • ASIN: 0691198357
    • ISBN: 0691198357
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

    The year's finest mathematical writing from around the worldThis annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhe... [Read More]

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544003438
    • ISBN: 0544003438
    • Brand: Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Pulitzer Prize–winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year’s top science and nature writing from journalists who dive into their fields with curiosity and passion, delivering must-read articles from a wide array of fields.

  • The Best of the Best of American Science Writing (The Best American Science Writing)

    • ASIN: 0061875007
    • ISBN: 0061875007
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    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 Nas... [Read More]

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: B00HK3ESKS
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    “Undeniably exquisite . . . The essays in the collection [are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” — Maria Popova, Brain Pickings“A stimulating compendium.” — Kirkus ReviewsPulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author Deborah Blum selects the year’s to... [Read More]

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442178921
    • ASIN: 0618178929
    • ISBN: 0618178929
    • Manufacturer: Best American

    Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundred of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces b... [Read More]

  • Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • ASIN: 0312089260
    • ISBN: 0312089260
    • Manufacturer: Griffin

    Do you dream of -Crossing the galaxies? Living in the far future?Entertaining millions with your imagination?This book can help make those dreams come true!Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy brings you expert advice on how to craft and market tales of the fantastic. Award-winning writers such as John Barnes, James Patrick Kelly, Norman Spinrad, Co... [Read More]

  • The New Art and Science of Teaching (More Than Fifty New Instructional Strategies for Academic Success) (The New Art and Science of Teaching Book Series)

    • ASIN: 1943874964
    • ISBN: 1943874964
    • Brand: Ingramcontent
    • Manufacturer: Solution Tree Press

    This title is a greatly expanded volume of the original Art and Science of Teaching, offering a competency-based education framework for substantive change based on Dr. Robert Marzano's 50 years of education research. While the previous model focused on teacher outcomes, the new version places focus on student learning outcomes, with research-based... [Read More]

  • Unfreedom of the Press

    • ASIN: 1476773092
    • ISBN: 1476773092
    • Brand: Threshold Editions
    • Manufacturer: Threshold Editions

    From five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a groundbreaking and enlightening book that shows how the great tradition of the American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered the faith and trust of the American public, not through actions of government o... [Read More]

  • Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544973984
    • ISBN: 0544973984
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    “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 the best of these stories do is the same across t... [Read More]

  • Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded

    • ASIN: 0199760241
    • ISBN: 0199760241
    • Brand: Oxford University Press USA
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    As a scientist, you are a professional writer: your career is built on successful proposals and papers. Success isn't defined by getting papers into print, but by getting them into the reader's consciousness. Writing Science is built upon the idea that successful science writing tells a story. It uses that insight to discuss how to write more effec... [Read More]

  • Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers (Now Write! Series)

    • ASIN: 039916555X
    • ISBN: 039916555X
    • Brand: Tarcher
    • Manufacturer: TarcherPerigee

    Featuring speculative fiction-writing exercises from Harlan Ellison (R), Piers Anthony, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, screenwriters of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many more. The fifth volume in the acclaimed Now Write! writing-guide series offers a full toolbox of advice and exercises for speculative fiction writers ... [Read More]

  • Brian Helsing: The World's Unlikeliest Vampire Hunter: Mission #1: Just Try Not To Die

    • ASIN: B077GKV4H9

    When Helsing XII, the latest in the long and illustrious line of brave demon-hunters dies in combat, no-one would have expected his ring of power to be handed down to an idiot.Least of all said idiot; Brian Trelawney, the most hapless car salesman in the whole of Cornwall.With no redeeming features bar his towering height, Brian finds himself thrus... [Read More]

  • Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, Second Edition

    • ASIN: 0071808868
    • ISBN: 0071808868
    • Brand: McGraw-Hill
    • Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

    An INFLUENCER leads change. An INFLUENCER replaces bad behaviors with powerful new skills. An INFLUENCER makes things happen. This is what it takes to be an INFLUENCER.Whether you're a CEO, a parent, or merely a person who wants to make a difference, you probably wish you had more influence with the people in your life. But most of us stop trying t... [Read More]

  • Writing in Political Science: A Brief Guide (Short Guides to Writing in the Disciplines)

    • ASIN: 0190203935
    • ISBN: 0190203935
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Writing in Political Science: A Brief Guide applies the key concepts of rhetoric and composition--audience, purpose, genre, and credibility--to examples based in political science. It is part of a series of brief, discipline-specific writing guides from Oxford University Press designed for today's writing-intensive college courses. The series is ed... [Read More]

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