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| Gênero/Forma: | Aufsatzsammlung Collected Works |
|---|---|
| Tipo de Material: | Recurso Internet |
| Tipo de Documento: | Livro, Recurso Internet |
| Todos os Autores / Contribuintes: |
Richard Dawkins |
| ISBN: | 9780199216802 0199216800 9780199216819 0199216819 |
| Número OCLC: | 180014200 |
| Descrição: | xviii, 419 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Conteúdos: | 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. |
| Outros Títulos: | Modern science writing |
| Responsabilidade: | [edited by] Richard Dawkins. |
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Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a rich and vibrant anthology celebrating the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory.
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A book from which the love of science and the love of language shine. Science An amalgamation of brilliant reads. New Scientist Every school library should own a copy of this book; every person with even a passing interest in science should read it. Jerry A. Coyne, Times Literary Supplement. Beautiful volume...A labour of love. Steven Poole. The Guardian. A glorius celebration of literary scientists. Harry Richie Mail on Sunday A brilliant collection... If you could only ever read one science book, this should probably be it. New Scientist It is a real treasure trove of unexpected pleasures. Sunday Telegraph. Kenan Malik Ler mais...
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