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A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Essays by Richard Dawkins
Category: Popular Science
Richard Dawkins is one of the finest minds in science, and in this superb collection of essays and letters, he demonstrates the depth of his knowledge and the rich variety of his interests. Whether he is examining postmodernism or the Human Genome Project, penning a letter to his daughter, or writing a ...Show more
A Devil's Chaplain - Selected Essays by Richard Dawkins
Category: Science & Natural History
A reviewer wrote of The Selfish Gene that it was 'rich with metaphor, passionate arguments, wry humour, colourful examples and unexpected connections'. This intriguing selection of Richard Dawkins large output of articles, lectures, individual chapters and reviews demonstrates the breadth of his interes ...Show more
A Universe from Nothing (order smaller format) by Lawrence M. Krauss; Richard Dawkins
Category: Science
Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. "Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?" One ...Show more
Adaptation and Natural Selection - A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought by George C. Williams; Richard Dawkins
Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
Biological evolution is a fact--but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful blow against those who argued for the concept of group selection--the idea that evolution acts to select ...Show more
An Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins
Category: Biography
Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? And who inspired him to become the pioneering scientist and public thi ...Show more
An Appetite for Wonder - The Making of a Scientist - A Memoir by Richard Dawkins
Category: Biography
Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life and intellectual development? And who inspired him to become the pionee ...Show more
Books do Furnish a Life by Richard Dawkins
Category: Science
A SPECTATOR BEST BOOK OF 2021'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times'It may be a collection of shorter parts, but the book is in no sense Dawkins made simple. It amounts to a substantive whole which offers a unitary panoramic view across his entire intellectual life.' Spe ...Show more
Books do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science by Richard Dawkins
Category: Science
At a time when science can seem complex and remote, it has a greater impact on our lives, and to the future of our planet, than ever before. It really matters that its discoveries and truths should be clearly and widely communicated. That its enemies, from the malicious to the muddled, the self-deluding ...Show more
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
Category: Biography
In An Appetite for WonderRichard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he continues ...Show more
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
Category: Biography
In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he continue ...Show more
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
Category: Science
In Climbing Mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, builds a powerful and carefully reasoned argument for evolutionary adaptation as the force behind all life on earth. What drives species to evolve? How can intricate structures such as the human eye, the spider's web or the wings ...Show more
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
Category: Science
The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How could such an intricate object have come about by chance? Tackling this subject--in writing that the New York Times called "a masterpiece"--Richard Dawkins ...Show more