Richard Dawkins
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Do you sometimes dream you can fly like a bird? Gliding effortlessly above the treetops, soaring and swooping, playing and dodging through the third dimension. Computer games, virtual reality headsets, and some drugs can lift our imagination and fly us through fabled, magical spaces. But it's not the real thing. No wonder some of the past's greatest minds, including Leonardo da Vinci's, have yearned for flying machines and struggled to design them....
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The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, 'The Selfish Gene' has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication.
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Bantam
Pub. Date
2006
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While Europe is secularized, the rise of religious fundamentalism, whether in the Middle East or Middle America, divides opinion around the world. This work attacks God in various forms, from the sex-obsessed, cruel tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign, but still illogical, Celestial Watchmaker.
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Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2021
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Including conversations with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley and more, this is an essential guide to the most exciting ideas of our time and their proponents from our most brilliant science communicator. 'Books Do Furnish a Life' is divided by theme, including celebrating nature, exploring humanity and interrogating faith. For the first time, it brings together Richard Dawkins' forewords, afterwords and introductions to the work of...
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Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2017
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'Science in the Soul' is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power and the glory of science. Breathtaking, brilliant and passionate, the essays, journalism, lectures and letters in this collection make an unanswerable case for the wonder of scientific discovery and its power to stir the imagination.
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Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2013
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From innocent child to charismatic world-famous scientist, Richard Dawkins paints a colourful, richly textured canvas of his early life. Honest self-reflection and witty anecdotes are interspersed with touching reminiscences of his family and friends, literature, poetry and songs. We are finally able to understand the private influences that shaped the public man who, more than anyone else in his generation, explained our own origins.
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Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2015
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In 'An Appetite for Wonder' Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life. In 'Brief Candle in the Dark' he continues his autobiography, following the threads that have run through the second half of his life so far and homing in on the key individuals, institutions and ideas that inspired and motivated him. He paints a vivid picture, coloured with wit, anecdote and digression, of the twenty-five postgraduate years...
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Black Swan
Pub. Date
2020
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Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe? Do we need God in order to be good? In twelve chapters that address some of the most profound questions human beings confront, Dawkins marshals science, philosophy and comparative religion to interrogate the hypocrisies of all the religious systems and explain to readers of all ages how life emerged without a Creator, how evolution works and how our world came...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2003
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Fully illustrated, this encyclopedia sets out to explain the achievements and progress of science. It will inspire children to see that the shape of the future is in their hands. This revised edition uses the same ISBN as the previous edition.