The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Edited by Richard Dawkins

Oxford Landmark Science

An anthology of diverse and inspiring pieces to browse and to treasure, confirming science writing as a literary genre of its own.
Captures the poetry and excitement of scientific understanding and discovery from 1900 to the present day.
Each essay or extract has been selected and is personally introduced by Richard Dawkins, producing a collection that is as wide-ranging and intellectually substantial as it is pleasureable to read.
Includes extracts from the works of J.B.S. Haldane, Stephen Jay Gould, Albert Einstein, D'Arcy Thompson, Alan Turing, Richard Feynman, C.P. Snow, James Watson, Martin Rees, Steve Pinker, Jared Diamond, and Erwin Schrodinger among others.

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Edited by Richard Dawkins

Description

Boasting almost one hundred articles and book excerpts, 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.

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Edited by Richard Dawkins

Oxford Landmark Science

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Edited by Richard Dawkins

Oxford Landmark Science

Author Information

Richard Dawkins is the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, and is a Fellow of New College, Oxford. His bestselling books include The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, and The Ancestor's Tale. Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature.

Contributors:

Features extracts from the following writers

Peter Atkins
Per Bak
J.D. Bernal
Colin Blakemore
John Tyler Bonner
Sydney Brenner
Jacob Bronowski
Rachel Carson
Subramaniam Chandrasekhar
Francis Crick
Helena Cronin
Antonio R. Damasio
D'Arcy Thompson
Paul Davies
Daniel C. Dennett
David Deutsch
Jared Diamond
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Freeman Dyson
Sir Arthur Eddington
Maitland Edey
Albert Einstein
Loren Eiseley
Richard Feynman
R. A. Fisher
Kenneth Ford
Richard Fortey
George Gamow
Martin Gardner
S. J. Gould
Brian Greene
Richard Gregory
J. B. S. Haldane
W. D. Hamilton
Garrett Hardin
Alister Hardy
G.H. Hardy
Stephen Hawking
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Lancelot Hogben
Fred Hoyle
Nick Humphrey
Julian Huxley
James Jeans
Donald Johanson
Steve Jones
Jonathan Kingdon
David Lack
Richard Leakey
Primo Levi
Roger Lewin
John Maynard Smith
Ernst Mayr
Peter Medawar
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Roger Penrose
Max Perutz
Steve Pinker
Martin Rees
Mark Ridley
Matt Ridley
Oliver Sacks
Carl Sagan
Erwin Schrodinger
Claude Shannon
G.G. Simpson
George Gaylord Simpson
Lee Smolin
C.P. Snow
Russell Stannard
Ian Stewart
Lewis Thomas
Niko Tinbergen
Robert Trivers
Alan Turing
James D. Watson
Warren Weaver
Steven Weinberg
John Archibald Wheeler
G.C. Williams
Edward O. Wilson
Lewis Wolpert