Sam Kean

10 books

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 by Rebecca Skloot, Tim Folger

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015
The Best American Science and Nature Writing #2015

Rebecca Skloot, Tim Folger with Jake Abrahamson (Contributor), Burkhard Bilger (Contributor), Sheila Webster Boneham (Contributor), Rebecca Boyle (Contributor), Alison Hawthorne Deming (Contributor), Sheri Fink (Contributor), Atul Gawande (Contributor), Lisa M. Hamilton (Contributor), Rowan Jacobsen (Contributor), Leslie Jamison (Contributor), Brooke Jarvis (Contributor), Sam Kean (Contributor), Jourdan Imani Keith (Contributor), Eli Kintisch (Contributor), Elizabeth Kolbert (Contributor), Amy Maxmen (Contributor), Seth Mnookin (Contributor), Dennis Overbye (Contributor), Matthew Power (Contributor), Sarah A. Schweitzer (Contributor), Michael Specter (Contributor), Meera Subramanian (Contributor), Kim Todd (Contributor), David Wolman (Contributor), Barry Yeoman (Contributor)

318 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction essays nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

nonfiction essays nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 by Rebecca Skloot, Tim Folger

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015

The Best American Science and Nature Writing #2015

Rebecca Skloot, Tim Folger with Jake Abrahamson (Contributor), Burkhard Bilger (Contributor), Sheila Webster Boneham (Contributor), Rebecca Boyle (Contributor), Alison Hawthorne Deming (Contributor), Sheri Fink (Contributor), Atul Gawande (Contributor), Lisa M. Hamilton (Contributor), Rowan Jacobsen (Contributor), Leslie Jamison (Contributor), Brooke Jarvis (Contributor), Sam Kean (Contributor), Jourdan Imani Keith (Contributor), Eli Kintisch (Contributor), Elizabeth Kolbert (Contributor), Amy Maxmen (Contributor), Seth Mnookin (Contributor), Dennis Overbye (Contributor), Matthew Power (Contributor), Sarah A. Schweitzer (Contributor), Michael Specter (Contributor), Meera Subramanian (Contributor), Kim Todd (Contributor), David Wolman (Contributor), Barry Yeoman (Contributor)

318 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction essays nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

nonfiction essays nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 by Sam Kean, Tim Folger

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018
The Best American Science and Nature Writing #2018

Sam Kean, Tim Folger with Ross Andersen (Contributor), Jacqueline Detwiler-George (Contributor), Sophie Brickman (Contributor), John Lanchester (Contributor), Siddhartha Mukherjee (Contributor), Kim Todd (Contributor), Douglas Fox (Contributor), J. B. MacKinnon (Contributor), Barack Obama (Contributor), David Roberts (Contributor), Ceridwen Dovey (Contributor), Caitlin Kuehn (Contributor), Paul Kvinta (Contributor), Joshua Rothman (Contributor), Christopher Solomon (Contributor), Kayla Webley Adler (Contributor), Rachel Leven (Contributor), Rebecca Boyle (Contributor), Kenneth Brower (Contributor), Susannah Felts (Contributor), Steven Johnson (Contributor), Elena Passarello (Contributor), Ed Yong (Contributor), Barbara Bradley Hagerty (Contributor), Eva Holland (Contributor), Kathryn Schulz (Contributor)

336 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays nature science informative reflective slow-paced

nonfiction essays nature science informative reflective slow-paced

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 by Sam Kean, Tim Folger

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018

The Best American Science and Nature Writing #2018

Sam Kean, Tim Folger with Ross Andersen (Contributor), Jacqueline Detwiler-George (Contributor), Sophie Brickman (Contributor), John Lanchester (Contributor), Siddhartha Mukherjee (Contributor), Kim Todd (Contributor), Douglas Fox (Contributor), J. B. MacKinnon (Contributor), Barack Obama (Contributor), David Roberts (Contributor), Ceridwen Dovey (Contributor), Caitlin Kuehn (Contributor), Paul Kvinta (Contributor), Joshua Rothman (Contributor), Christopher Solomon (Contributor), Kayla Webley Adler (Contributor), Rachel Leven (Contributor), Rebecca Boyle (Contributor), Kenneth Brower (Contributor), Susannah Felts (Contributor), Steven Johnson (Contributor), Elena Passarello (Contributor), Ed Yong (Contributor), Barbara Bradley Hagerty (Contributor), Eva Holland (Contributor), Kathryn Schulz (Contributor)

336 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays nature science informative reflective slow-paced

nonfiction essays nature science informative reflective slow-paced

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
Sam Kean

384 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

384 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Sam Kean

391 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

391 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science
Sam Kean

384 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history science true crime informative medium-paced

nonfiction history science true crime informative medium-paced

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science

384 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history science true crime informative medium-paced

nonfiction history science true crime informative medium-paced

Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting by Ylva Østby, Hilde Østby

Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting
Ylva Østby, Hilde Østby with Sam Kean

312 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science informative medium-paced

nonfiction psychology science informative medium-paced

Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting by Ylva Østby, Hilde Østby

Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting

Ylva Østby, Hilde Østby with Sam Kean

312 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science informative medium-paced

nonfiction psychology science informative medium-paced

The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb by Sam Kean

The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
Sam Kean

464 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative fast-paced

nonfiction history science informative fast-paced

The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb by Sam Kean

The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

464 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative fast-paced

nonfiction history science informative fast-paced

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: And Other True Stories of Trauma, Madness, Affliction, and Recovery That Reveal the Surprising History of the Human Brain by Sam Kean

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: And Other True Stories of Trauma, Madness, Affliction, and Recovery That Reveal the Surprising History of the Human Brain
Sam Kean

416 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science informative medium-paced

nonfiction history psychology science informative medium-paced

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: And Other True Stories of Trauma, Madness, Affliction, and Recovery That Reveal the Surprising History of the Human Brain by Sam Kean

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: And Other True Stories of Trauma, Madness, Affliction, and Recovery That Reveal the Surprising History of the Human Brain

416 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science informative medium-paced

nonfiction history psychology science informative medium-paced

Unlocking the Hidden History of DNA by Sam Kean

Unlocking the Hidden History of DNA
Sam Kean

6 hours, 19 minutes • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction science

nonfiction science

Unlocking the Hidden History of DNA by Sam Kean

Unlocking the Hidden History of DNA

6 hours, 19 minutes • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction science

nonfiction science

The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean

The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
Sam Kean

401 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced

nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced

The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean

The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code

401 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced

nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced

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