Check the Handbook

August 6, 2017 By John E. Riutta in Marginalia Tags: biology, book, Ecology, handbook, oxford, philosophy, reference, religion, scholarship, science

The recent arrival of a copy of The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication spurred me to look further into the Oxford Handbook series as a whole. What I found was indeed quite a remarkable selection of high-level but still remarkably readable collections of scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects.

For those interested in the sciences, three volumes were particularly noteworthy: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology and, for those (like me) interested in mixing a bit of the humanities with their science, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science and The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology.

There are far more, and I encourage all interested to explore the series’ section on the Oxford University Press website.

John E. Riutta

Founder and publisher of The Well-read Naturalist. Inveterate autodidact. Has repeatedly been found out standing in many fields. Plays well with otters.

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