The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages.As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins ar…
»Levandegör den vetenskapliga upptäcktens essens, som har gjort livet meningsfullt för Dawkins själv.« – The GuardianBehöver vi Gud för att förklara universums existens? Behöver vi Gud för att bli goda människor? Kort och gott: Bör vi tro på G…
Genom historien har vi människor försökt förklara naturens fenomen med fantasifulla myter. För vikingarna var regnbågen gudarnas bro till jorden. I Japan bar en enorm fisk världen på sin rygg och varje gång den viftade på stjärten blev det jordbävni…
Richard Dawkins banbrytande omformulering av evolutionsteorin"En lysande populärvetenskaplig framställning. Betyg: 5 av 5". BTJRichard Dawkins Den själviska genen har åstadkommit en enorm förändring i hur vi ser på oss själva och världen. Tänk om vi…
Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe? Do we need God in order to be good? In twelve chapters that address some of the most profound questions human beings confront, Dawkins marshals science, phil…
Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe? Do we need God in order to be good? In twelve chapters that address some of the most profound questions human beings confront, Dawkins marshals science, phi…
THE ANCESTOR'S TALE is a dazzling, four-billion-year pilgrimage to the origins of life: Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong take us on an exhilarating reverse journey through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial beginnings of life. It i…
Kommer vi någonsin att hitta svaret på de stora existentiella frågorna? Är vårt slutgiltiga öde att lämnas ensamma och förlora alla vi älskar? Är religion alltid problematisk?År 2007 filmades ett möte mellan Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sa…
***30th Anniversary Edition*** Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of The Blind Watchmaker features a unique biomorph. No two covers are exactly alike. Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred year…
The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled watchmaker. In The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins cra…
In an impassioned rebuttal to religion, a noted scientist and author of The Blind Watchmaker speaks out on his the irrationality of belief in God; criticizes the dire impact of religion on society, from the Crusades to September 11; and argues that…
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…
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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…
Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. "Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And fina…
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 clarificati…
The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry and abuses children. The God Delusion is a brilliantly argued, fascinating polemic that will be required reading for anyone intereste…
The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author of THE GOD DELUSION, Richard Dawkins.
The Selfish Gene is a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. In it Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicle…
Magic takes many forms. But there is another kind of magic, and it lies in the exhilaration of discovering the real answers to these questions.Packed with inspiring explanations of space, time and evolution, laced with humour and clever thought expe…
The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field to his own provocative views. Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canter…
A dazzling, passionate polemic against anti-science movements of all kinds Cover note: Each copy of the new edition of Unweaving the Rainbow features a unique wavelength pattern. No two covers are exactly alike. Keats accused Newton of destroying th…
The Selfish Gene caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was first published in 1976. Its vivid rendering of a gene's eye view of life, in lucid prose, gathered together the strands of thought about the nature of…
Den legendariska biologen, debattören och bästsäljande vetenskapsförfattaren Richard Dawkins sammanställer ett passionerat försvar för vetenskap och rationellt tänkande i denna samling essäer som sträcker sig genom hela hans karriär. Richard Dawkins…
The metaphor of Mount Improbable represents the combination of perfection and improbability that is epitomized in the seemingly "designed" complexity of living things. Dawkins skillfully guides the reader on a breathtaking journey through the mounta…
***20th Anniversary Edition - With a New Introduction*** Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of Climbing Mount Improbable features a unique shell. No two covers are exactly alike. How could such an intricate object as the human eye - so…
Charles Darwin's masterpiece, "On the Origin of Species", shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the co…
Der Evolutionsbiologe Richard Dawkins, einer der einflussreichsten Intellektuellen der Gegenwart, hat einen Bestseller geschrieben, der bestehende Weltbilder grunds?tzlich in Frage stellt. In diesem leidenschaftlichen Pl?doyer f?r die Vernunft zieht…
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 a…
What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen? Are we alone? Have you heard the tale of how the sun hatched out of an emu's egg? Has anyone ever told you that earthquakes are caused…
It is the magic of reality - science. Packed with inspiring explanations of space, time and evolution, laced with humour and clever thought experiments, The Magic of Reality explores a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Richard Dawkins - author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion - is one of science's greatest communicators. This anthology of more than forty pieces is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power…
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…
For decades, Richard Dawkins has been a brilliant scientific communicator, consistently illuminating the wonders of nature and attacking faulty logic. Science in the Soul brings together forty-two essays, polemics, and paeans-all written with Dawkin…
Till skillnad från Nyfikenhet och förundran, där Richard Dawkins skildrar sin uppväxt och de första åren som alltmer framgångsrik vetenskapsman, är den andra delen av hans memoarer inte kronologisk. Istället har Dawkins samlat sitt livs viktigaste ö…
Richard Dawkins banbrytande omformulering av evolutionsteorin Richard Dawkins Den själviska genen har åstadkommit en enorm förändring i hur vi ser på oss själva och världen. Tänk om vi, i stället för att betrakta oss som organismer som använder gene…
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 an…
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 essay…
Known as the 'four horsemen' of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed…
Världens mest tongivande företrädare för ateism förklarar slagfärdigt hur irrationellt han anser att det är att tro på Gud och vilken skada religion kan åsamka såväl samhället som individen. Illusionen om Gud har spritts i över 30 miljoner exemplar…
Successor to the highly acclaimed "Encyclopedia of Unbelief" (1985), edited by the late Gordon Stein, the "New Encyclopedia of Unbelief" is a comprehensive reference work on the history, beliefs, and thinking of America's fastest growing minority: t…
In Brief Candle in the Dark we are invited to enter with him a constantly stimulating world of discovery and to meet a fascinating cast of exceptional characters described by the talented pen of one of the most exceptional of them all.
A world-renowned, bestselling scientist explores the miracle of flight. Do you sometimes dream you can fly like a bird? Gliding effortlessly above the treetops, soaring and swooping, playing and dodging through the third dimension. Computer games, v…
ESTAMOS REALMENTE HECHOS DE POLVO DE ESTRELLAS? SI Todo en nuestro sistema solar est hecho de polvo de estrellas, incluido TU La mayor a de las personas se asombran al aprender esta hermosa verdad cient fica. El saber que todo est hecho de polvo de…
A bestselling selection of essays from Britain's leading science writer.
Richard Dawkins, evolutionsbiolog och världens mest kända ateist, ger för första gången sina läsare en inblick i sin barndom och intellektuella utveckling. Nyfikenhet och förundran : Så formades en vetenskapsman är den första delen i Richard Dawkins…
Richard Dawkins, evolutionsbiolog och världens mest kända ateist, ger för första gången sina läsare en inblick i sin barndom och intellektuella utveckling.Nyfikenhet och förundran: Så formades en vetenskapsman är den första delen i Richard Dawkins s…
A dual publication of two of the author's influential works includes his nineteenth-century discussion of his revolutionary theory of evolution by means of natural selection and his 1839 account of his journeys to South America and the Pacific Islan…
Master science writer Richard Dawkins and celebrated illustrator and designer Dave McKean's groundbreaking graphic science book is now in paperback. Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors invoked in order to explain the wor…
Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, the author was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? This book tells his…
