Books do Furnish a Life An electrifying celebration of science writing

''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.'' Spectator 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 some of the leading thinkers of our age - Carl Sagan, Lawrence Krauss, Jacob Bronowski, Lewis Wolpert - with a selection of his reviews to provide an electrifying celebration of science writing, both fiction and non-fiction. It is also a sparkling addition to Dawkins'' own remarkable canon of work. Plenty of other scientists write well, but no one writes like Dawkins... 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. - Areo Magazine

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Richard Dawkins
• Mitarbeit: Gillian Somerscales (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.02.2022
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik
• EAN: 9781529176490
• ISBN: 978-1-5291-7649-0
• Anzahl Seiten: 480
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 12.7 x 19.8 x 3 cm
• Themen: Charles Darwin, Nature, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General, Evolution, popular science, Science, Philosophy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, Sam Harris, Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, Carl Sagan, Dialectics, Humanity, Faith, Alice Roberts, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Life sciences: general issues, Impact of science and technology on society, The Four Horsemen, christopher hitchens, the selfish gene, the god delusion, Origin of the Species, iconoclast, lawrence krauss, flights of fancy