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

419 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction essays science challenging informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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