Best Of Richard Dawkins - April 2024

Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide

Should we believe in God? In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the world’s greatest science writers tells us why we shouldn’t.Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God.  Deeply impressed by the beauty and complexity of living things, he’d felt certain they must have had a designer. Learning about evolution changed his mind. Now one of the world’s best and bestselling science communicators, Dawkins has given readers, young and old, the same opportunity to rethink the big questions. In twelve fiercely funny, mind-expanding chapters, Dawkins explains ho... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1984853910
• ASIN: 1984853910
• ISBN: 1984853910
• Manufacturer: Random House

The God Delusion

A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing h... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618680004
• UPC: 046442680004
• ASIN: 0618680004
• ISBN: 0618680004
• Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of "Intelligent Design" in his New York Times bestseller, The Greatest Show on Earth."Intelligent Design" is being taught in our schools; educators are being asked to "teach the controversy" behind evolutionary theory. There is no controversy. Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence—from ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B002LVVCQM
• ASIN: B002LVVCQM
• Manufacturer: Free Press

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

An elegant, text-only paperback edition of the New York Times bestseller that’s been hailed as the definitive authority on…everything.Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. Here, he takes a broader approach and uses his unrivaled explanatory powers to illuminate the ways in which the world really works. Filled with clever thought experiments and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena: How old is the universe? Why do the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451675046
• ASIN: 1451675046
• ISBN: 9781451675047
• Brand: Free Press
• Manufacturer: Free Press

The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition (Oxford Landmark Science)

• ASIN: B01GI5F2FS
• ASIN: B01GI5F2FS
• Manufacturer: OUP Oxford

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don't lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution often is more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mysteries. With the wit, insight, and spellbinding prose that have made him a best-selling author, Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern sci... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618056734
• UPC: 046442056731
• ASIN: 0618056734
• ISBN: 0618056734
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. The video went viral. Now in print for the first time, the transcript of their conversation is illuminated by new essays from three of the original participants and an introduction by Stephen Fry. At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the heralds of religion's unraveling—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett—sat down together over cocktails. What followed was a rigorous,... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07DZM9761
• ASIN: B07DZM9761
• Manufacturer: Random House

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

• ASIN: B01K6G1H4K
• ASIN: B01K6G1H4K
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Oxford Landmark Science)

In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution developed by W.D. Hamilton and others. The book provoked widespread and heated debate. Written in part as a response, The Extended Phenotype gave a deeper clarification of the central concept of the gene as the unit of selection; but it did much more besides. In it, Dawkins extended the gene's eye view to argue that the genes that sit within an organism have an influence that reaches out beyond the visible traits in that body - the phenotype - to the wider environment, which can include other individuals. So, fo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0198788916
• ASIN: 0198788916
• ISBN: 0198788916
• Brand: OXFORD
• Manufacturer: Oxford Univ Pr

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (Oxford Landmark Science)

Boasting almost one hundred articles and book excerpts, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a breathtaking celebration of the finest writing by scientists--the best such collection in print--packed with scintillating essays on everything from "The Discovery of Lucy" to "The Terror and Vastness of the Universe." Edited by best-selling author and renowned scientist Richard Dawkins, this sterling collection brings together exhilarating pieces by a who's who of scientists and science writers, including Stephen Pinker, Stephen Jay Gould, Martin Gardner, Albert Einstein, Julian Huxley, and... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0199216819
• ASIN: 0199216819
• ISBN: 0199216819
• Brand: Oxford University Press
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

• ASIN: B004T4KQJS
• ASIN: B004T4KQJS
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

• ASIN: B073TJBYTB
• ASIN: B073TJBYTB
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction

What words come to mind when we think of God? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? In fact, the Bible lays out God’s primary qualities clearly: jealous, petty, unforgiving, bloodthirsty, vindictive—and worse! Originally conceived as a joint presentation between influential thinker and bestselling author Richard Dawkins and former evangelical preacher Dan Barker, this unique book provides an investigation into what may be the most unpleasant character in all fiction. Barker combs through both the Old and New Testament (as well as thirteen different editions of the “Good Book”), presenting pow... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1454918322
• ASIN: 1454918322
• ISBN: 1454918322
• Brand: Sterling
• Manufacturer: Sterling

An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

With the 2006 publication of The God Delusion, the name Richard Dawkins became a byword for ruthless skepticism and "brilliant, impassioned, articulate, impolite" debate (San Francisco Chronicle). his first memoir offers a more personal view.His first book, The Selfish Gene, caused a seismic shift in the study of biology by proffering the gene-centered view of evolution. It was also in this book that Dawkins coined the term meme, a unit of cultural evolution, which has itself become a mainstay in contemporary culture.In An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins shares a rare view into his early ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00BATKPBE
• ASIN: B00BATKPBE
• Manufacturer: Ecco

Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science

In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely read books of the twentieth century—The God Delusion.Called “one of the best nonfiction writers alive today” (Stephen Pinker) and a “prize-fighter” (Nature), Richard Dawkins cheerfully, mischievously, looks back on a lifetime of tireless intellectual adventure and engagement. Exploring the halls of i... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00RLSBVT8
• ASIN: B00RLSBVT8
• Manufacturer: Ecco

The Very Best of Richard Dawkins: Quotes from a Devout Atheist - eBook

Richard Dawkins is arguably the best known atheist in the world. Although professionally a respected Evolutionary Biologist, his outspoken views against religion have made him one of the most controversial characters alive today.Dawkins is never

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Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever (REV) (Hardcover)

A pictorial vocabulary book with words grouped under common activities such as mealtime and basic concepts such as

• UPC: 483322
• Rating: 4.8

The Very Best Of... Little Richard (Digi-Pak) (CD)

Very Best Of Little Richard (Dig)

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Guide to Richard Dawkins's Brief Candle in the Dark by Instaread - eBook

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Richard Dawkins's Brief Candle and NOT the original book.Preview:Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins is an autobiographical depiction of his experiences as

• UPC: 257069420
• Rating: 4.0

The Selfish Genius : How Richard Dawkins Rewrote Darwin's Legacy

Richard Dawkins' brand of evolutionary theory dominates our understanding of Darwinism. His rhetoric has sidelined serious scientists who just happen to disagree with him. A staunch pro-scientist and scholar of Darwinian evolution, Fern Elsdon-Baker explores

• UPC: 13004852
• Rating: 4.0

Richard Scarry's Best Story Book Ever (Hardcover)

A collection of stories, nursery rhymes, fables, and illustrated topical word lists covering such subjects as numbers, alphabets, manners, seasons, and many

• UPC: 483251
• Rating: 4.6

Richard Dawkins : How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think

In this exciting collection of original essays, some of the world's leading thinkers offer their take on how Dawkins, author of "The Selfish Gene," has changed the way we think about evolution, religion, and other

• UPC: 25954019
• Rating: 3.0

Richard Scarry's Best Little Word Book Ever! (Board Book)

Labeled pictures introduce the members of the Cat family, their good friend Lowly Worm, their house, their food, and their drives downtown, to the airport, and to the

• UPC: 935696068

The Best Of Richard Elliot (CD)

Best Of Richard Elliot

• UPC: 1149291
• Rating: 5.0

Richard Scarry's The Best Mistake Ever! and Other Stories

Three stories about Lowly Worm and his friends include "The Best Mistake Ever," "A Visit to Mr. Fixit," and "Best

• UPC: 454811
• Rating: 4.5

The Very Best of Richard Dawkins: Quotes from a Devout Atheist by Gordon Fisher

• UPC: 361422034916
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 10 USD