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  • Books do Furnish a Life: An electrifying celebration of science writing

    Books do Furnish a Life by Dawkins, Richard;

    An electrifying celebration of science writing

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Transworld
    • Date of Publication 10 February 2022
    • Number of Volumes B-format paperback

    • ISBN 9781529176490
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages464 pages
    • Size 198x127x28 mm
    • Weight 303 g
    • Language English
    • 236

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    Long description:

    'A rich feast of his essays, reviews, forewords, squibs and conversations, in which talent and passion are married to deep knowledge.' Matt Ridley

    'Enjoy the unfailing clarity of his thought and prose, as well as the grandeur of his vision of life on Earth.' - Mark Cocker, Spectator

    'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times

    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

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