The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Want to read. Bought for myself, it's waiting around to be read.
==Includes:==
===Part 1: "What Scientists Study"===
*Extract from The Mysterious Universe, James Jeans
*Extract from Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees
*Extract from Creation Revisited, Peter Atkins
*Extract from The Ant and the Peacock, Helena Cronin
*Extract from The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, R. A. Fisher
*Extract from Mankind Evolving, Theodosius Dobzhansky
*Extract from Adaptation and Natural Selection, G. C. Williams
*Extract from Life Itself, Francis Crick
*Extract from Genome, Matt Ridley
*Theoretical Biology in the Third Millenium, Sydney Brenner
*Extract from The Language of the Genes, Steve Jones
*Extract from On Being the Right Size, J. B. S. Haldane
*Extract from The Explanation of Organic Diversit, Mark Ridley
*The Importance of the Nervous System in the Evolution of Animal Flight, John Maynard Smith
*Extract from Man in the Universe, Fred Hoyle
*Extract from On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson
*Extract from The Meaning of Evolution, G. G. Simpson
*Extract from Trilobite!, Richard Fortey
*Extract from The Mind Machine, Colin Blakemore
*Extract from Mirrors in Mind, Richard Gregory
*One Self: A Meditation on the Unity of Consciousness, Nicholas Humphrey
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*Extracts from The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker
*Extract from The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamond
*Extract from The Life of the Robin, David Lack
*Extract from Curious Naturalists, Niko Tinbergen
*Extract from Social Evolution, Robert Trivers
*Extract from The Open Sea, Alister Hardy
*Extract from The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson
*Extract from How Flowers Changed the World, Loren Eiseley
*Extract from The Diversity of Life, Edward O. Wilson
====Part 2: "Who Scientists Are"====
*Extract from The Expanding Universe, Arthur Eddington
*Extract from the foreword to A Mathematician's Apology (G. H. Hardy) by C. P. Snow
*Extract from The Disturbing Universe, Freeman Dyson
*Extract from War and the Nations, J. Robert Oppenheimer
*A Passion for Crystals, Max F. Perutz
*Said Ryle to Hoyle, Barbara and George Gamow
*Cancer's a Funny Thing, J. B. S. Haldane
*Extract from The Identity of Man, Jacob Bronowski
*Extracts from Science and Literature, Darwin's Illness, The Phenomenon of Man, the postscript to Lucky Jim, and D'Arcy Thompson and Growth *and Form, Peter Medawar
*Extract from Self-Made Man, Jonathan Kingdon
*Extract from Origins Reconsidered, Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin
*Extract from Lucy, Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A. Edey
*Worm for a Century, and All Seasons, Stephen Jay Gould
*Extract from Life Cycles, John Tyler Bonner
*Extract from Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks
*Seven Wonders, Lewis Thomas
*Extract from Avoid Boring People, James Watson
*Extract from What Mad Pursuit, Francis Crick
*Extract from The Unnatural Nature of Science, Lewis Wolpert
*Extract from Essays of a Biologist, Julian Huxley
*Religion and Science, Albert Einstein
*Extract from The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
====Part 3: "What Scientists Think"====
*Extract from The Character of Physical Law, Richard Feynman
*Extract from What is Life?, Erwin Schrodinger
*Extracts from Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Consciousness Explained, Dan Dennett
*Extract from The Growth of Biological Thought, Ernst Mayr
*Extract from The Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin
*Extract from Geometry of the Selfish Herd and Narrow Roads of Geneland, Bill Hamilton
*Extract from How Nature Works, Per Bak
*Fantastic Combinations of John Conway's New Solitaire Game 'Life', Martin Gardner
*Extract from Mathematics for the Million, Lancelot Hogben
*Extract from The Miraculous Jar, Ian Stewart
*Extract from The Mathematical Theory of Communication, Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver
*Extract from Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing
*Extract from What is the Theory of Relativity?, Albert Einstein
*Extract from Mr Tompkins, George Gamow
*Extract from The Goldilocks Enigma, Paul Davies
*Extract from The Time and Space of Uncle Albert, Russell Stannard
*Extract from The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
*Extract from A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
====Part 4: "What Scientists Delight In"====
*Extract from Truthe and Beauty, S. Chandrasekhar
*Extract from A Mathematician's Apology, G. H. Hardy
*Extract from Dreams of a Final Theory, Steven Weinberg
*Extract from The Life of the Cosmos, Lee Smolin
*Extract from The Emperor's New Mind, Roger Penrose
*Extract from Gödel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter
*Extract from Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam, John Archibald Wheeler and Kenner Ford
*Extract from The Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch
*Extract from The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
*Extract from Life: An Unauthorized Biography, Richard Fortey
*Extract from The Meaning of Evolution, George Gaylord Simpson
*Extract from Little Men and Flying Saucers, Loren Eiseley
*Extract from Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan
==Journal==
08/07/2010: Read "Extract from Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter". Disappointed, was hoping it would be dead interesting but it was just a silly story with some punchline to do with Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.
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