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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Dawkins, Richard The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing Oxford : Oxford University Press,c2009 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Dawkins |
| ISBN: | 9780191550843 0191550841 |
| OCLC Number: | 1264471942 |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. J. B. S. Haldane 'CANCER'S A FUNNY THING' |
| Description: | 1 online resource (439 p.). |
| Contents: | Cover -- The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Featured Writers and Extracts -- Introduction -- PART I WHAT SCIENTISTS STUDY -- James Jeans from THE MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE -- Martin Rees from JUST SIX NUMBERS -- Large Numbers and Diverse Scales -- The Value of N and Why it is So Large -- Peter Atkins from CREATION REVISITED -- Why Things Change -- Helena Cronin from THE ANT AND THE PEACOCK -- A World Without Darwin -- R. A. Fisher from THE GENETICAL THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION -- Difficulties Felt by Darwin -- Particulate Inheritance Theodosius Dobzhansky from MANKIND EVOLVING -- Equal but Dissimilar -- Family Resemblances -- Nature and Nurture in Condominium -- G. C. Williams from ADAPTATION AND NATURAL SELECTION -- Francis Crick from LIFE ITSELF -- Nucleic Acids and Molecular Replication -- Matt Ridley from GENOME -- Chromosome 1: Life -- Sydney Brenner 'THEORETICAL BIOLOGY IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM' -- Steve Jones from THE LANGUAGE OF THE GENES -- Change or Decay? -- J. B. S. Haldane from 'ON BEING THE RIGHT SIZE' -- Mark Ridley from THE EXPLANATION OF ORGANIC DIVERSITY -- On Being the Right Sized Mates John Maynard Smith 'THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL FLIGHT' -- The Stability of Primitive Flying Animals -- The Evolution of Instability -- Fred Hoyle from MAN IN THE UNIVERSE -- D'Arcy Thompson from ON GROWTH AND FORM -- The Equiangular Spiral -- Spirals in Nature -- The Spiral of Archimedes -- The Equiangular Spiral -- G. G. Simpson from THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION -- Outlines of the History Of Mammals -- Richard Fortey from TRILOBITE! -- Colin Blakemore from THE MIND MACHINE -- Sight Unseen -- Knowledge from Molecules and Waves -- Pictures in the Head Richard Gregory from MIRRORS IN MIND -- Why are Looking-glass Images Right-Left Reversed? -- Alice -- Nicholas Humphrey 'ONE SELF: A MEDITATION ON THE UNITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS' -- Steven Pinker from THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT -- An Instinct to Acquire an Art -- Steven Pinker from HOW THE MIND WORKS -- The Smell of Fear -- Jared Diamond from THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE -- David Lack from THE LIFE OF THE ROBIN -- Niko Tinbergen from CURIOUS NATURALISTS -- Robert Trivers from SOCIAL EVOLUTION -- The Group Selection Fallacy -- Species-Advantage Reasoning within Biology Alister Hardy from THE OPEN SEA -- Rachel Carson from THE SEA AROUND US -- The Changing Year -- Loren Eiseley from 'HOW FLOWERS CHANGED THE WORLD' -- Edward O. Wilson from THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE -- Storm Over the Amazon -- PART II WHO SCIENTISTS ARE -- Arthur Eddington from THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE -- C. P. Snow from the Foreword to G. H. Hardy's A MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY -- Freeman Dyson from DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE -- A Scientifi c Apprenticeship -- J. Robert Oppenheimer from 'WAR AND THE NATIONS' -- Max F. Perutz 'A PASSION FOR CRYSTALS' -- Barbara and George Gamow 'SAID RYLE TO HOYLE' |
| Series Title: | Oxford Landmark Science Ser. |
Abstract:
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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