Helena Cronin

3 books

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Lewis Thomas, Richard Gregory, Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, J.B.S. Haldane, George Gaylord Simpson, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Jonathan Kingdon, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Matt Ridley, Edward O. Wilson, Ronald A. Fisher, Robert Trivers, Loren Eiseley, Alister Hardy, Steven Pinker, David Lack, Jacob Bronowski, Freeman Dyson, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Fred Hoyle, Peter Atkins, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, James Watson, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin, Mark Ridley, Lewis Wolpert, Colin Blakemore, John Maynard Smith, John Tyler Bonner, Steve Jones, Richard Fortey, George C. Williams, Max F. Perutz, Martin J. Rees, Jared Diamond, Oliver Sacks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Dawkins, P.B. Medawar, George Gamow, Rachel Carson, Helena Cronin, C.P. Snow, Donald C. Johanson, James Hopwood Jeans, Barbara Gamow, Nicholas Humphrey

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Lewis Thomas, Richard Gregory, Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, J.B.S. Haldane, George Gaylord Simpson, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Jonathan Kingdon, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Matt Ridley, Edward O. Wilson, Ronald A. Fisher, Robert Trivers, Loren Eiseley, Alister Hardy, Steven Pinker, David Lack, Jacob Bronowski, Freeman Dyson, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Fred Hoyle, Peter Atkins, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, James Watson, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin, Mark Ridley, Lewis Wolpert, Colin Blakemore, John Maynard Smith, John Tyler Bonner, Steve Jones, Richard Fortey, George C. Williams, Max F. Perutz, Martin J. Rees, Jared Diamond, Oliver Sacks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Dawkins, P.B. Medawar, George Gamow, Rachel Carson, Helena Cronin, C.P. Snow, Donald C. Johanson, James Hopwood Jeans, Barbara Gamow, Nicholas Humphrey

419 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction essays science challenging informative slow-paced
Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think by Michael Ruse, Margo Wilson, David Deutsch, Michael Hansell, Randolph M. Nesse, Daniel C. Dennett, Robert Aunger, A.C. Grayling, Steven Pinker, Andrew F. Read, Seth Bullock, Philip Pullman, Alan Grafen, Richard Harries, Ullica Segerstråle, Martin Daly, Mark Ridley, David Haig, Michael Shermer, David Philip Barash, Marian Stamp Dawkins, Kim Sterelny, Patrick Bateson, Marek Kohn, Helena Cronin, John R. Krebs

Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think

Michael Ruse, Margo Wilson, David Deutsch, Michael Hansell, Randolph M. Nesse, Daniel C. Dennett, Robert Aunger, A.C. Grayling, Steven Pinker, Andrew F. Read, Seth Bullock, Philip Pullman, Alan Grafen, Richard Harries, Ullica Segerstråle, Martin Daly, Mark Ridley, David Haig, Michael Shermer, David Philip Barash, Marian Stamp Dawkins, Kim Sterelny, Patrick Bateson, Marek Kohn, Helena Cronin, John R. Krebs

283 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography science informative reflective slow-paced
The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today by Helena Cronin

The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today

Helena Cronin

508 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative medium-paced