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Author(s): Richard Dawkins
ISBN(s): 9780199216802, 0199216800
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Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199216800

ISBN 13: 9780199216802 

Author: Richard Dawkins 

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 Godel, 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

Table of contents:

Part I: What Scientists Study

1. The Mysterious Universe
2. Just Six Numbers
3. Creation Revisited
4. The Ant and the Peacock
5. The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
6. Mankind Evolving
7. Adaptation and Natural Selection
8. Life Itself
9. Genome
10. Theoretical Biology in the Third Millennium
11. The Language of the Genes
12. On Being the Right Size
13. The Explanation of Organic Diversity
14. The Importance of the Nervous System in the Evolution of Animal Flight
15. Man in the Universe
16. On Growth and Form
17. The Meaning of Evolution
18. Trilobite!
19. The Mind Machine
20. Mirrors in Mind
21. One Self: A Meditation on the Unity of Consciousness
22. The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works
23. The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
24. The Life of the Robin
25. Curious Naturalists
26. Social Evolution
27. The Open Sea
28. The Sea Around Us
29. How Flowers Changed the World
30. The Diversity of Life

Part II: Who Scientists Are
31. The Expanding Universe
32. A Mathematician’s Apology
33. Disturbing the Universe
34. War and the Nations
35. A Passion for Crystals
36. Said Ryle to Hoyle
37. Cancer’s a Funny Thing
38. The Identity of Man
39. Science and Literature, Darwin’s Illness, The Phenomenon of Man, the Postscript to Lucky Jim, and D’Arcy Thompson and Growth and Form
40. Self-Made Man
41. Origins Reconsidered
42. Lucy
43. Worm for a Century, and All Seasons
44. Life Cycles
45. Uncle Tungsten
46. Seven Wonders
47. Avoid Boring People
48. What Mad Pursuit
49. The Unnatural Nature of Science
50. Essays of a Biologist
51. Religion and Science
52. The Demon-Haunted World

Part III: What Scientists Think
53. The Character of Physical Law
54. What is Life?
55. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea and Consciousness Explained
56. The Growth of Biological Thought
57. The Tragedy of the Commons
58. Geometry for the Selfish Herd and Narrow Roads of GeneLand
59. How Nature Works
60. The Fantastic Combinations of John Conway’s New Solitaire Game ‘Life’
61. Mathematics for the Million
62. The Miraculous Jar
63. The Mathematical Theory of Communication
64. Computing Machinery and Intelligence
65. What is the Theory of Relativity?
66. Mr Tompkins
67. The Goldilocks Enigma
68. The Time and Space of Uncle Albert
69. The Elegant Universe
70. A Brief History of Time

Part IV: What Scientists Delight In
71. Truth and Beauty
72. A Mathematician’s Apology
73. Dreams of a Final Theory
74. The Life of the Cosmos
75. The Emperor’s New Mind
76. Gödel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid
77. Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam
78. The Fabric of Reality
79. The Periodic Table
80. Life: An Unauthorized Biography
81. The Meaning of Evolution
82. Little Men and Flying Saucers
83. Pale Blue Dot

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