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Books do Furnish a Life
Taschenbuch von Richard Dawkins
Sprache: Englisch

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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 to the self-interested, be challenged and exposed. That science should be brought out of the laboratory, taken into the corridors of power and defended in the maelstrom of popular culture. No one does this better than Richard Dawkins.

In bringing together his forewords, afterwords and introductions to works by some of the leading thinkers of our age - Carl Sagan, Lawrence Krauss, Jacob Bronowski, Lewis Wolpert - and a selection of his reviews, both admiring and critical, of a wide range of scientific and other works, Books do Furnish a Life celebrates the writers who communicate the ideas of science and the natural world in both fiction and non-fiction. It celebrates the courage of those who write about their experiences of escaping religion and embracing rationality, of protecting the truths of science and analytical rigour against charlatanry and obfuscation.

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 to the self-interested, be challenged and exposed. That science should be brought out of the laboratory, taken into the corridors of power and defended in the maelstrom of popular culture. No one does this better than Richard Dawkins.

In bringing together his forewords, afterwords and introductions to works by some of the leading thinkers of our age - Carl Sagan, Lawrence Krauss, Jacob Bronowski, Lewis Wolpert - and a selection of his reviews, both admiring and critical, of a wide range of scientific and other works, Books do Furnish a Life celebrates the writers who communicate the ideas of science and the natural world in both fiction and non-fiction. It celebrates the courage of those who write about their experiences of escaping religion and embracing rationality, of protecting the truths of science and analytical rigour against charlatanry and obfuscation.

Über den Autor
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 a Fellow of New College, Oxford and 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 464 S.
ISBN-13: 9781787633698
ISBN-10: 1787633691
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 753713
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Dawkins, Richard
Redaktion: Somerscales, Gillian
Herausgeber: Gillian Somerscales
Hersteller: Transworld Publ. Ltd UK
Bantam Press
Maße: 233 x 155 x 38 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Dawkins
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.05.2021
Gewicht: 0,56 kg
Artikel-ID: 118931940
Über den Autor
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 a Fellow of New College, Oxford and 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 464 S.
ISBN-13: 9781787633698
ISBN-10: 1787633691
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 753713
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Dawkins, Richard
Redaktion: Somerscales, Gillian
Herausgeber: Gillian Somerscales
Hersteller: Transworld Publ. Ltd UK
Bantam Press
Maße: 233 x 155 x 38 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Dawkins
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.05.2021
Gewicht: 0,56 kg
Artikel-ID: 118931940
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