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Additional authors

1. Dawkins, Richard, 1941-

Description

1. xviii, 419 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. 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."

Alternative title

1. Modern science writing

Subject

1. Scientists' writings
2. Science
3. Collected Work

Genre/Form

1. Collected Work

Contents

1. Part 1. What scientists study -- from The mysterious universe / James Jeans -- from Just six numbers / Martin Rees -- from Creation revisited / Peter Atkins -- from The ant and the peacock / Helena Cronin -- from The genetical theory of natural selection / R.A. Fisher -- from Mankind evolving / Theodosius Dobzhansky -- from Adaptation and natural selection / G.C. Williams -- from Life itself / Francis Crick -- from Genome / Matt Ridley -- Theoretical biology in the third millennium / Sydney Brenner -- from The language of the genes / Steve Jones -- from On being the right size / J.B.S. Haldane -- from The explanation of organic diversity / Mark Ridley -- The importance of the nervous system in the evolution of animal flight / John Maynard Smith -- from Man in the universe / Fred Hoyle -- from ON growth and form / D'Arcy Thompson -- from The meaning of evolution / G.G. Simpson -- from Trilobite! / Richard Fortey -- from The mind machine / Colin Blakemore -- from Mirrors in the mind / Richard Gregory -- One self : a meditation on the unity of consciousness / Nicholas Humphrey -- from The language instinct and How the mind works / Steven Pinker -- from The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee / Jared Diamond -- from The life of the robin / David Lack -- from Curious naturalists / Niko Tinbergen -- from Social evolution / Robert Trivers -- from The open sea / Alister Hardy -- from The sea around us / Rachel Carson -- from How flowers changed the world / Loren Eiseley -- from The diversity of life / Edward O. Wilson -- Part 2. Who scientists are -- from The expanding universe / Arthur Eddington -- from the foreword to G.H. Hardy's A mathematician's apology / C.P. Snow -- from Disturbing the universe / Freeman Dyson -- from War and the nations / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- A passion for crystals / Max Perutz -- Said Ryle to Hoyle / Barbara and George Gamow -- Cancer's a funny thing / J.B.S. Haldane -- from The identity of man / Jacob Bronowski -- from Science and literature, 'Darwin's illness', 'The phenomenon of man', the postscript to 'Lucky Jim", and 'D'Arcy Thompson and growth and form' / Peter Medawar -- from Self-made man / Jonathan Kingdon -- from Origins reconsidered / Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin -- from Lucy / Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A. Edey -- Worm for a century, and all seasons / Stephen Jay Gould -- from Life cycles / John Tyler Bonner -- from Uncle Tungsten / Oliver Stacks -- Seven wonders / Lewis Thomas -- from Avoid boring people / James Watson -- from What mad pursuit / Francis Crick -- from The unnatural nature of science / Lewis Wolpert -- from Essays of a biologist / Julian Huxley -- Religion and science / Albert Einstein -- from The demon-haunted world / Carl Sagan -- Part 3. What scientists think -- from The character of physical law / Richard Feynman -- from What is life? / Erwin Schrödinger -- from Darwin's dangerous idea and Consciousness explained / Daniel Dennett -- from The growth of biological thought / Ernst Mayr -- from The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin -- from Geometry for the selfish herd and Narrow roads of geneland / W.D. Hamilton -- from How nature works / Per Bak -- The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game "life" / Martin Gardner -- from The miraculous jar / Ian Stewart -- from Computing machinery and intelligence / Alan Turing -- from What is the theory of relativity? / Albert Einstein -- from Mr. Tompkins / George Gamow -- from The Goldilocks enigma / Paul Davies -- from The time and space of Uncle Albert / Russell Stannard -- from The elegant universe / Brian Greene -- from A brief history of time / Stephen Hawking -- Part 4. What scientists delight in -- from Truth and beauty / S. Chandrasekhar -- from A mathematician's apology / G.H. Hardy -- from Dreams of a final theory / Steven Weinberg -- from The life of the cosmos / Lee Smolin -- from The emperor's new mind / Roger Penrose -- from Gödel, Escher, Bach : the eternal golden braid / Douglas Hofstadter -- from Geons, black holes, and quantum foam / John Archibald Wheeler with Kenneth Ford -- from The fabric of reality / David Deutsch -- from The periodic table / Primo Levi -- from Life : an unauthorized biography / Richard Fortey -- from The meaning of evolution / George Gaylord Simpson -- from Little men and flying saucers / Loren Eiseley -- from Pale blue dot / Carl Sagan.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-400) and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain