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The Oxford book of modern science writing / (Record no. 6884)

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Item number	.O87 2008
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Classification number	808.066 5 DAW
Edition number	23
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Title	The Oxford book of modern science writing /
Statement of responsibility, etc.	[edited by] Richard Dawkins.
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Title proper/short title	Modern science writing
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	Oxford ;
--	New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Oxford University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	2009.
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Extent	xviii, 419 p. :
Other physical details	ill. ;
Dimensions	24 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Formatted contents note	PART I<br/>What Scientists Study<br/>3 James Jeans from THE MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE<br/>4 Martin Rees from JUST SIX NUMBERS<br/>11 Peter Atkins from CREATION REVISITED<br/>16 Helena Cronin from THE ANT AND THE PEACOCK<br/>18 R.A. Fisher from THE GENETICAL THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION<br/>22 Theodosius Dobzhansky from MANKIND EVOLVING<br/>27 G. C. Williams from ADAPTATION AND NATURAL SELECTION<br/>30 Francis Crick from LIFE ITSELF<br/>35 Matt Ridley from GENOME<br/>40 Sydney Brenner 'THEORETICAL BIOLOGY IN THE THIRD<br/>MILLENNIUM'<br/>48 Steve Jones from THE LANGUAGE OF THE GENES<br/>53 J.B.S. Haldane from'ON BEING THE RIGHT SIZE'<br/>59 Mark Ridley from THE EXPLANATION OF ORGANIC DIVERSITY<br/>61 John Maynard Smith 'THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NERVOUS<br/>SYSTEM IN THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL FLIGHT'<br/>66 Fred Hoyle from MAN IN THE UNIVERSE<br/>69 D'Arcy Thompson from ON GROWTH AND FORM<br/>78 G.G. Simpson from THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION<br/>82 Richard Fortey from TRILOBITE!<br/>86 Colin Blakemore from THE MIND MACHINE<br/>89 Richard Gregory ftom MIRRORS IN MIND<br/>96 Nicholas Humphrey 'ONE SELF: A MEDIT'ATION ON THE UNITY OF<br/>CONSCIOUSNESS'<br/>103 Steven Pinker from THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT and HOW THE<br/>MIND WORKS<br/>lio Jared Diamond fronm THF RISE AND FAl L OFI TF THIRD<br/>CHIMPANZEE<br/>114 David Lack from THE I IFE OF TIlE ROBIN<br/>us Niko Tinbergen front URIOUS NATURALIS ES<br/>123 Robert Trivers fiom S(OCIAL EVOI1TION<br/>127 Alister Hardy firorn THE OPEN SEA<br/>30o Rachel Carson firm TIHE SEA AROUND US<br/>138 Loren Eiseley firm '11HOW FLOWERS CHANGED 'l E WO)RI D'<br/>143 Edward O. Wilson from THEf DIVERSITY OF I IFE<br/>PART I I<br/>Who Scientists Are<br/>15i Arthur Eddington f[omi THE EXPANLDING IuNIlVERSE<br/>152 C. P. Snow fron thcFIoreword to G. 11. Hard''s A MATHEM ATIC IAN'S<br/>APOLOGY<br/>157 Freeman Dyson from DISTUPRBING THE UNIVERSE<br/>161 J. Robert Oppenheimer from 'WAR AND) THE NATIONS'<br/>168 Max F. Perutz 'A PASSION FOR CRYSTAI.S'<br/>172 Barbara and George Gamow 'SAIDl RYLE TO 1HOYLE'<br/>174 J. B. S. Haldane 'CANCER'S A FUNNY THING'<br/>176 Jacob Bronowski from THE IDENTITY OF MAN<br/>179 Peter Medawar from 'SCIENCE AND LI IERATURE., 'DARWIN'S<br/>ILLNESS', 'TIE PHENOMENON OF MAN', lthe postscript to<br/>'LUTCKY JIM', and'D'ARCY THOMPSON AND GROWTH<br/>AND FORM'<br/>188 Jonathan Kingdon front SELF-MADE MAN<br/>191) Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin from ORIGINS REC(ON SIDERED<br/>195 Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A. Edey from LI 'C)<br/>2oo Stephen Jay Gould 'WORM FOR A CENTURY, AND ALL SEASONS<br/>211 John Tyler Bonner from LIFE CYCLES<br/>214 Oliver Sacks from UNCLE TUNGSTEN<br/>219 Lewis Thomas 'SEVEN AWONDERS'<br/>226 James Watson trom AVOID BORING PEOPLE<br/>229 Francis Crick from WHAT MAD PURSUITI<br/>232 Lewis Wolpert fr-om THF UNNATURAl NATURE OF SCIENCE<br/>234 Julian Huxley from ESSAYS OF A BIOLOGIST<br/>235 Albert Einstein 'RELIGION AND SCIENCE'<br/>239 Carl Sagan from THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD<br/>PART Ill<br/>What Scientists Think<br/>247 Richard Feynman from THE CHARACTER OF PHYSICAL LAW<br/>249 Erwin Schr6dinger from WHAT IS LIFE?<br/>254 Daniel Dennett from DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA and<br/>CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED<br/>259 Ernst Mayr from THE GROWTH OF BIOLOGICAL THOUGHT<br/>263 Garrett Hardin from 'THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS'<br/>266 W. D. Hamilton from GEOMETRY FOR THE SELFISH HERD and<br/>NARROW ROADS OF GENELAND<br/>273 Per Bak from HOW NATURE WORKS<br/>276 Martin Gardner THE FANTASTIC COMBINATIONS OF JOHN<br/>CONWAY'S NEW SOLITAIRE GAME 'LIFE'<br/>284 Lancelot Hogben from MATHEMATICS FOR THE MILLION<br/>289 Ian Stewart from THE MIRACULOUS JAR<br/>297 Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver from THE MATHEMATICAL<br/>THEORY OF COMMUNICATION<br/>305 Alan Turing from COMPUTING MACHINERY AND<br/>INTELLIGENCE<br/>314 Albert Einstein from 'WHAT IS THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY?'<br/>317 George Gamow fromnt MR TOMPKINS<br/>323 Paul Davies from THE GOLDILOCKS ENIGMA<br/>332 Russell Stannard from THE TIME AND SPACE OF UNCLE ALBERT<br/>336 Brian Greene from THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE<br/>342 Stephen Hawking from A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME<br/>PART IV<br/>What Scientists Delight In<br/>349 S. Chandrasekhar from TRUTH AND BEAUTY<br/>352 G. H. Hardy from A MikTHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY<br/>357 Steven Weinberg from DREAMS OF A FINAL THEORY<br/>362 Lee Smolin from THE LIFE OF THE COSMOS<br/>367 Roger Penrose from THE EMPEROR'S NEW MIND<br/>371 Douglas Hofstadter from GODEL, ESCHFR, BACH: TIfH ETERNAL<br/>GOLDEN BRAID<br/>378 John Archibald Wheeler with Kenneth Ford from GE()NS, BLACK<br/>HOLES, AND QUANTUM FOAM<br/>381 David Deutsch from THE FABRIC OF REALITY<br/>383 Primo Levi from THE PERIODIC TABLE<br/>390 Richard Fortey from LIFE: AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPiHY<br/>392 George Gaylord Simpson fi-om THE MEANING OF EVOLU'ION<br/>393 Loren Eiseley from LITTLE MEN AND FLYING SAUCERS<br/>394 Carl Sagan from PALE BLUE DOT
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Topical term or geographic name entry element	Science.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element	Scientists' writings.
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Personal name	Dawkins, Richard,
Dates associated with a name	1941-
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