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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 (Best American Science & Nature Writing)by Richard Dawkins
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 Synopsis:Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-324).
Synopsis:Bringing together the best and brightest writers on science and nature, this year's collection includes essays on such wide-ranging subjects as astronomy's new stars, archaeology, the Bible, "terminal" ice, and memory faults. About the AuthorRichard Dawkins taught zoology at the University of California atBerkeley and at Oxford University and is now the Charles Simonyi Professorof the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position hehas held since 1995. The Wall Street Journal said his "passion is supportedby an awe-inspiring literary craftsmanship."The New YorkTimes Book Review has hailed him as a writer who "understands theissues so clearly that he forces his reader to understand them too."Among his previous books are The Ancestor's Tale, The Selfish Gene,The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweavingthe Rainbow, and A Devil's Chaplain. Dawkins lives in Oxford with hiswife, the actress and artist Lalla Ward.Tim Folger has been an editor and reporter for Discover and Science Digest. Table of Contents
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