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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
by Richard Dawkins, James Hopwood Jeans, Sydney Brenner, Steve Jones, J.B.S. Haldane, Mark Ridley, John Maynard Smith, Fred Hoyle, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, George Gaylord Simpson, Richard Fortey, Colin Blakemore, Martin J. Rees, Richard Gregory, Nicholas Humphrey, Steven Pinker, Jared Diamond, David Lack, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Robert Trivers, Alister Hardy, Rachel Carson, Loren Eiseley, Edward O. Wilson, Helena Cronin, Ronald A. Fisher, Theodosius Dobzhansky, George C. Williams, Francis Crick, Matt Ridley, Arthur Stanley Eddington, C.P. Snow, Freeman Dyson, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Max F. Perutz, Barbara Gamow, George Gamow, Jacob Bronowski, Peter Medawar, Jonathan Kingdon, Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin, Donald C. Johanson, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Stephen Jay Gould, John Tyler Bonner, Oliver Sacks, Lewis Thomas, James Watson, Lewis Wolpert, Peter Atkins📕 The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing • CLICK HERE 📕
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Language: english
- ISBN: 9780199216802 (0199216800)
- Format: hardcover, 419 pages
- Genres: science, biology, essays, writing, physics, anthologies, evolution, reference
- Author: Richard Dawkins, James Hopwood Jeans, Sydney Brenner, Steve Jones, J.B.S. Haldane, Mark Ridley, John Maynard Smith, Fred Hoyle, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, George Gaylord Simpson, Richard Fortey, Colin Blakemore, Martin J. Rees, Richard Gregory, Nicholas Humphrey, Steven Pinker, Jared Diamond, David Lack, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Robert Trivers, Alister Hardy, Rachel Carson, Loren Eiseley, Edward O. Wilson, Helena Cronin, Ronald A. Fisher, Theodosius Dobzhansky, George C. Williams, Francis Crick, Matt Ridley, Arthur Stanley Eddington, C.P. Snow, Freeman Dyson, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Max F. Perutz, Barbara Gamow, George Gamow, Jacob Bronowski, Peter Medawar, Jonathan Kingdon, Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin, Donald C. Johanson, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Stephen Jay Gould, John Tyler Bonner, Oliver Sacks, Lewis Thomas, James Watson, Lewis Wolpert, Peter Atkins
- Release date: June 15, 2008
- Characters: D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
About The Book
Boasting almost one hundred pieces, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a breathtaking celebration of the finest writing by scientists — the best such collection in print — packed with scintillating essays on everything from “The Discovery of Lucy” to “The Terror and Vastness of the Universe.”
Edited by best-selling author and renowned scientist Richard Dawkins, this sterling collection brings together exhilarating pieces by a who’s who of scientists and science writers, including Stephen Pinker, Stephen Jay Gould, Martin Gardner, Albert Einstein, Julian Huxley, and many dozens more. Readers will find excerpts from bestsellers such as Douglas R. Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, Francis Crick’s Life Itself, Loren Eiseley’s The Immense Journey, Daniel Dennett’s Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, and Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us. There are classic essays ranging from J.B.S. Haldane’s “On Being the Right Size” and Garrett Hardin’s “The Tragedy of the Commons” to Alan Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” and Albert Einstein’s famed New York Times article on “Relativity.” And readers will also discover lesser-known but engaging pieces such as Lewis Thomas’s “Seven Wonders of Science,” J. Robert Oppenheimer on “War and Physicists,” and Freeman Dyson’s memoir of studying under Hans Bethe.
A must-read volume for all science buffs, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a rich and vibrant anthology that captures the poetry and excitement of scientific thought and discovery.
One of New Scientist’s Editor’s Picks for 2008.
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