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Informationen zum Autor Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of the Royal Society and was the inaugural holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the acclaimed author of many books including The Selfish Gene! Climbing Mount Improbable! Unweaving the Rainbow! The Ancestor's Tale! The God Delusion! and The Greatest Show on Earth. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards! including the Royal Society of Literature Award (1987)! The Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society (1990)! the Kistler Prize (2001)! the Shakespeare Prize (2005)! the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2006)! the Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year Award (2007)! and! most valuable of all! the International Cosmos Prize of Japan. Visit him at RichardDawkins.net. Klappentext In AN APPETITE FOR TRUTH-a first memoir! characterized by his trademark vicious wit and dazzling eloquence-Richard Dawkins tells the fascinating story of how this hugely influential man learned to think! to ask questions! and to forge great ideas. From his idyllic childhood in colonial Kenya to the raucous debates at Berkeley and Oxford! Dawkins shares here! for the first time! the details of his intellectual awakening and the thrilling path to the creation of The Selfish Gene.
