Overview
The next wave of science writing is here. Editor Max Brockman has talent-spotted 19 young scientists, working on leading-edge research across a wide range of fields. Nearly half of them are women, and all of them are great communicators: their passion and excitement makes this collection a wonderfully invigorating read. We hear from an astrobiologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena about the possibilities for life elsewhere in the solar system (and the universe); from the director of Yale's Comparative Cognition Laboratory about why we keep making the same mistakes; from a Cambridge lab about DNA synthesis; from the Tanzanian savannah about what lies behind attractiveness; we hear about how to breed plants to withstand disease, about ways to extract significance from the Interne's enormous datasets, about oceanography, neuroscience, microbiology, and evolutionary psychology.
Full Product Details
Author: Max Brockman (Vice President of Brockman, Inc Literary Agency)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.40cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 19.50cm
Weight: 0.294kg
ISBN: 9780199699353
ISBN 10: 0199699356
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 13 October 2011
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Punchy, provocative and packed with fascinating insights BBC Focus magazine marvellous Independent on Sunday irrestibile Sunday Times
irrestibile * Sunday Times * marvellous * Independent on Sunday * Punchy, provocative and packed with fascinating insights * BBC Focus magazine *
<p> A title wave of talent. . . . A wealth of new and exciting ideas. <br>--Stephen Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought <br><br> I would have killed for books like this when I was a student! <br>--Brian Eno<br> <br> This remarkable collection of fluent and fascinating essays reminds me that there is almost nothing as spine-tinglingly exciting as glimpsing a new nugget of knowledge for the first time. These young scientists give us a treasure trove of precious new insights. <br>--Matt Ridley, author of The Red Queen and Rational Optimism <br> <br> A good overview of what's happening in today's laboratories. <br>-- Booklist <br> <br> A glimpse of how today's daring science is defining tomorrow's lines for inquiry. . . . Readers will delight in the complexity of its exciting mosaic. <br>-- Kirkus Reviews
marvellous Independent on Sunday irrestibile Sunday Times
Author Information
Max Brockman is the vice president of Brockman, Inc. a literary agency, and the editor of What's Next? Dispatches on the Future of Science. He also works with the Edge Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit organization that publishes the Edge newsletter (www.edge.com). He lives in New York City.
