The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

• An anthology of diverse and inspiring pieces to browse and to treasure, confirming science writing as a literary genre of its own.
• Captures the poetry and excitement of scientific understanding and discovery from 1900 to the present day.
• Each essay or extract has been selected and is personally introduced by Richard Dawkins, producing a collection that is as wide-ranging and intellectually substantial as it is pleasureable to read.
• Includes extracts from the works of J.B.S. Haldane, Stephen Jay Gould, Albert Einstein, D'Arcy Thompson, Alan Turing, Richard Feynman, C.P. Snow, James Watson, Martin Rees, Steve Pinker, Jared DIamond, and Erwin Schrodinger among others.

Readership: Anyone with an interest in science and literature, including - but not limited to - readers of popular science; scientists, both professional and undergraduate; those interested in the history of science; writers; students of literature; and others from non-scientific backgrounds.

Richard Dawkins, Former Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford University; Fellow of New College, Oxford; Fellow of the Royal Society; and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

"A compendium of some of the most illuminating thinking of the past 100 years." - Eureka, The Times

"A feast for many long evenings." - Katie Owen, The Sunday Telegraph

"Engaging selection." - Christopher Hirst, The Independent

"Richard Dawkins has done a wonderful job." - Nicholas Lezard, Saturday Guardian

"Stunning anthology." - The Times

Part I: What Scientists Study
Part II: Who Scientists Are
Part III: What Scientists Think
Part IV: What Scientists Delight In