The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Lewis Thomas, Richard Gregory, Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, J.B.S. Haldane, George Gaylord Simpson, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Jonathan Kingdon, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Matt Ridley, Edward O. Wilson, Ronald A. Fisher, Robert Trivers, Loren Eiseley, Alister Hardy, Steven Pinker, David Lack, Jacob Bronowski, Freeman Dyson, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Fred Hoyle, Peter Atkins, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, James Watson, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin, Mark Ridley, Lewis Wolpert, Colin Blakemore, John Maynard Smith, John Tyler Bonner, Steve Jones, Richard Fortey, George C. Williams, Max F. Perutz, Martin J. Rees, Jared Diamond, Oliver Sacks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Dawkins, P.B. Medawar, George Gamow, Rachel Carson, Helena Cronin, C.P. Snow, Donald C. Johanson, James Hopwood Jeans, Barbara Gamow, Nicholas Humphrey

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
Lewis Thomas, Richard Gregory, Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, J.B.S. Haldane, George Gaylord Simpson, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Jonathan Kingdon, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Matt Ridley, Edward O. Wilson, Ronald A. Fisher, Robert Trivers, Loren Eiseley, Alister Hardy, Steven Pinker, David Lack, Jacob Bronowski, Freeman Dyson, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Fred Hoyle, Peter Atkins, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, James Watson, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin, Mark Ridley, Lewis Wolpert, Colin Blakemore, John Maynard Smith, John Tyler Bonner, Steve Jones, Richard Fortey, George C. Williams, Max F. Perutz, Martin J. Rees, Jared Diamond, Oliver Sacks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Dawkins, P.B. Medawar, George Gamow, Rachel Carson, Helena Cronin, C.P. Snow, Donald C. Johanson, James Hopwood Jeans, Barbara Gamow, Nicholas Humphrey

419 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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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 ...