7 1/2 lessons about the brain

Seven and a half lessons about the brain

7 and a half lessons about the brain

Don't wait up : confessions of a stay-at-work mom

Do not wait up

Confessions of a stay-at-work mom

Introduction: the stay-at-work mom -- Guilt trip -- Rules of estrangement -- No more monsters -- Stain -- Year of the turtle -- Happy New Year -- Out of the basement, into the fire -- Kids in the orange shirts -- Little royalty -- Typhoid Mary of Playa Blanca -- Water is for writers -- It's not brain surgery -- Are you there, God ... ? It's me, Jeff's sister -- Tim Allen tried to kill me -- Love bracelet -- I've got this -- Epilogue: one flying leap.

The best American science & nature writing. 2023

The best American science and nature writing. 2023

Science & nature writing. 2023

Science and nature writing. 2023

An invisible epidemic / The myopia generation / A deepening crisis forces physicists to rethink structure of nature's laws / The coming collapse / My metamorphosis / The bird and the flame / Dislodged / Bright flight / Brain wave / The Provincetown breakthrough / True grit / Another green world / A French village's radical vision of a good life with Alzheimer's / In El Salvador and beyond, an unsolved kidney disease mystery / The climate underground / The butterfly effect / Shadows, tokens, spring / An ark for amphibians / Don't look down / American motherhood

The meaning of Michelle : 16 writers on the iconic first lady and how her journey inspires our own

Homegirls / Michelle in high cotton / Crushing on Michelle : or, The unapologetic power of Blackness / The composer and the brain : a conversation about music, marriage, power, creativity, partnership ... and the Obamas / Lady O and King Bey / We go way back / Two Black first ladies walk into a room / Becoming the wife / On being flawlessly imperfect / She slays : Michelle Obama & the power of dressing like you mean it / Cooking with a narrative / Michelle Obama : representational justice / The freedom to be yourself / She loves herself when she is laughing : Michelle Obama, taking down a stereotype and co-creating a presidency / The best of wives and best of women / Making space

The best American essays 2022

The best American series

Abasement.

Drinking story.

Fire and ice.

Ghosts.

Wild, sublime body.

Baby yeah.

Gye, the no-name hair salon, the coup d'état, and the small dreamers.

It had to be gold.

Futurity.

Her kind.

Ghost bread.

Gamble.

Wrong Jason Brown.

Between these lives, Azeroth.

Among men.

China brain.

What she would always and should always be doing.

My gentile region.

Anatomy of a botched assimilation.

Mother country.

At the bend of the road.

If you ever find yourself.

Lost list.

Best American series.

Abasement / Drinking story / Fire and ice / Ghosts / The wild, sublime body / Baby yeah / The gye, the no-name hair salon, the coup d'état, and the small dreamers / It had to be gold / Futurity / Her kind / Ghost bread / The gamble / The wrong Jason Brown / Between these lives, Azeroth / Among men / China brain / What she would always and should always be doing / My gentile region / Anatomy of a botched assimilation / Mother country / At the bend of the road / If you ever find yourself / The lost list / Contributors' notes -- Notable essays and literary nonfiction of 2021 -- Notable special issues of 2021

The best American Science and Nature Writing 2020

The best American series

Best American series.

A journey into the animal mind (from The Atlantic) / Sleep no more (from Wind) / What remains (from the California Sunday magazine) / With a simple twist, a "Magic" material is now the big thing in physics (from Quanta magazine) / The eighth continent (from the New Yorker) / The tumultuous history of a mysterious brain (from the Atlantic) / Younger longer (from The New Yorker) / Right under our noses (from Wires) / Beauty of the beasts (from the New York Times magazines) / Ghosts of the future (from The Washington post ) / Intelligent ways to search for extraterrestrials (from New Yorker) / We have fire everywhere (from the New York Times magazine) / Vaccines reimagined (from Scientific American) / New blood (from the New Yorker) / The day the dinosaurs died (from The New Yorker) / The final five percent (from Longreads) / The next word (from The New Yorker) / Troubled treasure (from Science magazine) / The hidden heroines of chaos (from Quanta magazine) / The hunt for planet nine (from Longreads) / A different kind of theory of everything (from The New Yorker) / The brain that remade itself (from OneZero)

The best American science and nature writing 2019

The best American series

Best American series.

A compassionate substance (from Lapham's Quarterly) / The search for alien life begins in earth's oldest desert (from The Atlantic) / Glimpses of a mass extinction in modern-day western New York (from The New Yorker) / This sand is your sand (from Outside) / The brain, reimagined (from Scientific American) / Little golden flower-room: on wild places and intimacy (from The Millions) / The endling: watching a species vanish in real time (from Pacific Standard) / What if the placebo effect is not a trick? (from The New York Times Magazine) / The great rhino U-turn (from Mongabay) / The fading star: a constellation (from Lapham's Quarterly) / Saving baby boy green (from Wired) / The fire at Eagle Creek (from Topic) / Deleting a species (from Pacific Standard) / The insect apocalypse is here (from The New York Times Magazine) / No heart, no moon (from The Southern Review) / The scientific detectives probing the secrets of ancient oracles (from Atlas Obscura) / Your really don't want to know what it's like to be a right whale these days (from Atlantic) / How extreme weather is shrinking the planet (from The New Yorker) / The story of a face (from The New Yorker) / How to not die in America (from Splinter) / Why paper jams persist (from The New Yorker) / The professor of horrible deeds (from The Chronicle of Higher Education) / Welcome to the center of the universe (from Longreads) / The hidden toll: why are black mothers and babies in the United States dying at more than double the rate of white mothers and babies? The answer has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America (from The New York Times Magazine) / When the next plague hits (from The Atlantic) / Paper trails: living and dying with fragmented medical records (from Undark)

Letter to a stranger : essays to the ones who haunt us

Foreword / Introduction / Symmetry -- To the Traveling Magician, GRANADA, NICARAGUA / To the Woman Who Found Me Crying Outside the Senate, WASHINGTON, DC / To the Father Paused Under the Tree, GRAND CANYON, ARIZONA / To My Lost Trishaw Driver, MANDALAY, MYANMAR / To the Child on the Plane, THE CASCADES, OREGON / To My Arctic Vardoger, PYRAMIDEN, NORWAY / To the Girl in the Tattoo Parlor, DALLAS, TEXAS / To the Face in the Subway Glass, BERLIN, GERMANY / Mystery -- To the Loner at High Altitude, TRES CRUCES, PERU / To the First Responder After the Storm, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA / To the Boy Who Climbed onto My Hammock, MAZUNTE, MEXICO / To the Man I Believe Was Good, PALERMO, ITALY / To the Man Who Saw Cobras Dance, AUROVILLE, INDIA / To the Woman Who Wanted to Go Shoe Shopping, XI'AN, CHINA / To the Chatty Man Who Pierced the Quiet, CANAAN, NEW HAMPSHIRE / To the Boo Radley of My Childhood, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA / To the Grandfather I Hardly Knew, SICILY, ITALY / To My Grandmother, c/o the Mush Hole, TSI KANAT�AHERE / Chemistry -- To the Girl at the Riverbend, BAKER RIVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE / To the Stranger in My Family, BETHESDA, MARYLAND / To the Man Who Spoke with His Hands, SOUTH CHINA SEA / To the Taxi Driver Who Looped Back to Get Me, PARIS, FRANCE / To the Woman Whose Shoulder I Slept On, NEW YORK CITY TO BOSTON / To the Source Who Kept Changing Costume, DHAHRAN, SAUDI ARABIA / To Father of the Baby with the Brain Freeze, TUCSON, ARIZONA / To the Inescapable Teacher, PARAKOU, BENIN / To the Gambler I Met in Jury Duty, CHINATOWN, NEW YORK CITY / To the Stranger from the Silver Hour, ROCAMADOUR, FRANCE / Gratitude -- To the Pharmacist on Futong West Street, BEIJING, CHINA / To the Woman Who Spared Me an Orange, OAXACA, MEXICO / To the Driver I Followed, INTERSTATE 40, NORTH CAROLINA / To the Man Who Sold Me Shoddy Film, HARAR, ETHIOPIA / To Sandals Man, AN AIRPORT TERMINAL, CENTRAL CHINA / To the Driver Who Was Not Godfrey, KAMPALA, UGANDA / To the Waiter Who Left Me a Tip, BEYO�GLU DISTRICT, ISTANBUL, TURKEY / To the Doctor I Never Thanked, TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK / To the Woman Who Walked Beside Me, YONKERS, NEW YORK / To the Drunk Mr. Flunchy, AVIGNON, FRANCE / Wonder -- To the Seller of Breadcrumbs, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA / To the Woman on the Park Bench, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY / To My Steadfast Danish Soldier, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK / To the Young German Horsewoman, Chosen to Help with �Rttir, OBYGGDASETUR ISLANDS, ICELAND / To the Lady of the Platform, NEW YORK, NEW YORK / To the Italian Whose Name I Lost, FLORENCE, ITALY / To the Traveler Who Hid Cash in Her Underwear, RWANDA-TANZANIA BORDER / To the Lady of the Blackberries, HAPPY CAMP, CALIFORNIA / Remorse -- To the Logari Who Asked About the Sun, LOGAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN / To the Roomful of Travelers Watching Reality TV, LA PAZ, BOLIVIA / To Mario, 26-Year-Old Bestie to My 78-Year-Old Mom, SUNNYSIDE, WASHINGTON / To the Son of the Victim, SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA / To the Woman with the Restraining Order, HOODSPORT, WASHINGTON / To the Woman We Met Before the Flood, PAI, THAILAND / To the Servant Girl Who Shared My Toys, KARACHI, PAKISTAN / To the Keeper of the Fawn, CHISAGO CITY, MINNESOTA / To the Woman Harboring a Gringo, SAN ISIDRO DEL GENERAL, COSTA RICA / Farewell -- To the Poet Who Disappeared, OKINAWA, JAPAN / To the Woman in the Earrings, PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS / To the Protagonist of a Too-Short Story, US ROUTE 17, NEW YORK / To the Follower of Cheikh Bamba, DAKAR, SENEGAL / To the Father of the Lost Chilean Son, CHILEAN BASE, ANTARCTICA / To the Man Who Had a Wife, COSHOCTON, OHIO / To the One Who Was Supposed to Get Away, KO PHA NGAN, THAILAND / To the Stranger My Doctor Heard All About, PORTLAND, OREGON / To the Deliveryman Who Gave Me a Lift, CARACAS, VENEZUELA / To the Girl I Didn't Love on the Last Bus Home, GUANACASTE, COSTA RICA

Behind the eye

Gifford lectures ;

What we wish were true : reflections on nurturing life and facing death

Essays. Selections

Living by the word : selected writings, 1973-1987

Voyager : constellations of memory

Voyager (mapa de las lenguas). English