Série de Q&A interessantes da Nature, e grátis por um mês.
Q&A: Joanna Cole on writing science books for kids FREE ACCESS
Joanna Cole has authored more than 100 science books for children, including the best-selling Magic School Bus series, the latest edition of which tackles the topic of climate change. In the last of our series of interviews with authors who write science books for different audiences, Cole reveals how clarity and colour can introduce even very young children to science.
Nature 464, 36 (4 March 2010) doi:10.1038/464036a
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Q&A: Georgina Ferry on writing biography FREE ACCESS
Acclaimed biographer Georgina Ferry has chronicled the lives of two Nobel prizewinning chemists, Dorothy Hodgkin and Max Perutz. In the fourth in our series of five interviews with authors who each write science books for a different audience, Ferry reveals how detachment is needed to turn an attic's worth of personal letters into a compelling story.
Nature 463, 1025 (25 February 2010) doi:10.1038/4631025a
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Q&A: David Brin on writing fiction FREE ACCESS
After obtaining a PhD in planetary physics, David Brin found that he could make a better living as a science-fiction novelist than a researcher. In the third in our series of five interviews with authors who each write science books for a different audience, Brin reveals that criticism — and a thick skin — are the keys to good creative writing.
Nature 463, 883 (18 February 2010) doi:10.1038/463883a
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Q&A: Carl Zimmer on writing popular-science books FREE ACCESS
Acclaimed essayist Carl Zimmer has eight popular-science books to his name, on topics from parasites and Escherichia coli to evolution. In the second in a series of five interviews with authors who each write science books for a different audience, Zimmer describes how passion breeds popular success.
Nature 463, 737 (11 February 2010) doi:10.1038/463737a
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Q&A: Peter Atkins on writing textbooks FREE ACCESS
The success of Peter Atkins's classic textbook Physical Chemistry led him to trade research for full-time writing and teaching in the 1980s. In the first of a series of five interviews with authors who each write science books for a different audience, Atkins explains how the rewards for textbooks can be great, but the effort needed can affect your research.
Nature 463, 612 (5 February 2010) doi:10.1038/463612a
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