The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003

Informationen zum Autor RICHARD DAWKINS is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. He is the author of 15 books includingUnweaving the Rainbow, A Devil's Chaplain, and The God Delusion.Dawkins lives in Oxford., Klappentext Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundred of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003, edited by Richard Dawkins, is another "eloquent, accessible, and even illuminating" collection (Publishers Weekly). Here are the best and brightest writers on science and nature, writing on such wide-ranging subjects as astronomy's new stars, archaeology, the Bible, "terminal" ice, and memory faults. Natalie Angier Timothy Ferris Ian Frazier Elizabeth F. Loftus Steven Pinker Oliver Sacks Steven Weinberg Edward O. Wilson

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RICHARD DAWKINS is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. He is the author of 15 books includingUnweaving the Rainbow, A Devil's Chaplain, and The God Delusion.Dawkins lives in Oxford.,

Product details

• Authors: Richard Dawkins, Tim Folger
• Assisted by: Richard Dawkins (Editor), Tim Folger (Editor)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2003
• EAN: 9780618178926
• ISBN: 978-0-618-17892-6
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 210 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Best American Science & Nature; Best American; Best American Science & Nature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); TRAVEL: Essays & Travelogues, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / General, SCIENCE: Earth Sciences / General, SCIENCE: Essays, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Science & Technology, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Authorship, SCIENCE: Natural History, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Journalism, SCIENCE: Earth Sciences / Geology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs