Books do Furnish a Life
An electrifying celebration of science writing
$28.71
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
5 July 2022
Summary
A new anthology of the internationally best-selling science writer’s work, bringing together his writing about some of the most important science literature of our age to explore its key themes. Includes exclusive new commentary and conversation with other great science thinkers of our time.
‘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 substan…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529176490 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529176492 |
| Author: | Richard Dawkins |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 5 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 303g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 28mm |
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“Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.” – The Sunday Times
Dawkins’ books are full of passion as well as reason, human warmth as well as rational detachment, literature as well as science. Richard Dawkins is one of the finest English prose stylists of the past fifty years. Plenty of other scientists write well, but no one writes like Dawkins.The content of the book is as excellent as its style-indeed, the two are intertwined. Some pieces are short, some long, all fascinating. The range is also astonishing: here is Dawkins the teacher, the scholar, the polemicist, the joker, the aesthete, the poet, the satirist, the man of compassion as well as indignation, the slayer of superstition and, above all, the scientist. With his treatment of everything from evolutionary psychology to the temptations of supposedly sophisticated theology, from African Eve to the beauty of the Galápagos, from the virtual reality software in our brains to postmodern baloney … Dawkins excites, surprises and nourishes the mind.
– Daniel Sharp * Areo Magazine *Much more than just a collection of journalism, this has an overarching unity and presents a panoramic survey of his intellectual career. There are occasional moments of delicious savagery as Dawkins dismantles an opponent. Much more often he celebrates the work of fellow scientists and throughout the entire 460 pages, one can enjoy the unfailing clarity of his thought and prose, as well as the grandeur of his vision of life on Earth. – Mark Cocker * Spectator *About The Author
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins is author of The Selfish Gene, voted The Royal Society’s Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time, and also the bestsellers The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor’s Tale, The God Delusion, and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder and Brief Candle in the Dark. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and a fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world’s top thinker in Prospect magazine’s poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.
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