Richard Dawkins: 36 books
by Richard Dawkins
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Richard Dawkins' God als misvatting is niet meer weg te denken uit het debat over geloof, godsdienst en het al of niet bestaan van God. Het boek heeft een onophoudelijke stroom van reacties losgemaakt, die nog eens onderstrepen hoe controversieel, actueel en urgent dit werk is. Het beleeft dan ook...
Brief Candle in the Dark
My Life in Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
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...
An Appetite for Wonder
The Making of a Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
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...
Science in the Soul
Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time.
For decades, Richard Dawkins...
Outgrowing God
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
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...
Een regenboog ontrafelen
over wetenschap, waanideeën en wonderen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Met zijn boek God als misvatting rekende Richard Dawkins af met het geloof als middel om de werkelijkheid te begrijpen. Maar God is niet de enige bedreiging van de wetenschap en van het gezonde verstand. Ook de belangstelling voor astrologie, homeopathie en andere pseudowetenschappen blijft Richard...
by Richard Dawkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Richard Dawkins’s classic remains the definitive argument for our modern understanding of evolution.
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...
A Devil's Chaplain
Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2004
Essays on morality, mortality, and much more from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion.
This early collection of essays from renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is an enthusiastic declaration, a testament to the power of rigorous scientific...
The Four Horsemen
The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
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...
Unweaving the Rainbow
Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2000
**From the New York Times–bestselling author of Science in the Soul. “If any recent writing about science is poetic, it is this” (The Wall Street Journal).
Did Sir Isaac Newton “unweave the rainbow” by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as John Keats contended? Did he, in other...
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
The Long Reach of the Gene
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1999
By the best selling author of The Selfish Gene 'This entertaining and thought-provoking book is an excellent illustration of why the study of evolution is in such an exciting ferment these days.' Science 'The Extended Phenotype is a sequel to The Selfish Gene . . . he writes so clearly it could be...
by Richard Dawkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1997
A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker.
The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How...
The Ancestor's Tale
A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
With unparalleled wit, clarity, and intelligence, Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most renowned evolutionary biologists, has introduced countless readers to the wonders of science in works such as The Selfish Gene. Now, in The Ancestor's Tale, Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse...
The Extended Phenotype
The Long Reach of the Gene
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
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...