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Publishing and the advancement of science : from selfish genes to Galileo's Finger /
Popular science books, selling in their thousands - even millions - help us appreciate breakthroughs in understanding the natural world, while highlighting the cultural importance of scientific knowledge. Textbooks bring these same advances to students; the scientists of tomorrow. But how do these b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Imperial College Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Hawking, Einstein, and popular science
- 2. Discovering the world of science and scientists
- 3. Falling under the spell of the selfish gene
- 4. The origins and evolution of the college science textbook, and the birth of a superstar
- 5. A companion to the mind, and science in the vegetable garden
- 6. r- and K-selection, and the extended phenotype
- 7. The blind watchmaker, and the universe in twenty objects
- 8. Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith: working with two giants of evolutionary biology
- 9. 'The best textbook of organic chemistry I ever hold in my hands'
- 10. Scientific anecdotes, the ten great ideas of science, 'science writing at its best'.