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Richard Dawkins

Books do Furnish a Life

  • Books do Furnish a Life

  • '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.

RELEASED 06/05/2021

Outgrowing God
Outgrowing God
Richard Dawkins
The Four Horsemen
The Four Horsemen
Richard Dawkins (and others)
Science in the Soul
Science in the Soul
Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
Brief Candle in the Dark
Brief Candle in the Dark
Richard Dawkins
An Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
An Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
Richard Dawkins
The Magic of Reality
The Magic of Reality
Richard Dawkins
The Magic of Reality
The Magic of Reality
Richard Dawkins
The Magic of Reality
The Magic of Reality
  • Richard Dawkins
  • Dave McKean
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Dawkins
Red Strangers
Red Strangers
Elspeth Huxley
Unweaving the Rainbow
Unweaving the Rainbow
Richard Dawkins
Climbing Mount Improbable
Climbing Mount Improbable
Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker
The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins
Penguin Modern Classics

Penguin Modern Classics

1245 Books
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Events

Finding Happiness in a World With or Without God, 15th February 2020

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Recommendations

Books to help you win every family argument this Christmas

The big day is coming, and with it, the guarantee of rows with your nearest and dearest. From Brexit and the NHS to the climate crisis and vegetarianism, here are the books you need to win any festive dispute this year.
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Extracts

Outgrowing God by Richard Dawkins

In his new book Outgrowing God, Professor Richard Dawkins explores how much of what we know about religion is true, and argues why we shouldn’t believe in God.
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Features

Richard Dawkins and Reverend Richard Coles debate 'Outgrowing God'

We asked Britain's most famous vicar to review Richard Dawkins' new book on atheism. Now the author has written a response. Together they make a fascinating debate about religion and the nature of belief.
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Events

Richard Dawkins: An Argument for Atheism, 22nd - 30th September 2019

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Extracts

Richard Dawkins on time

In 2001 the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford held an exhibition called 'About Time', featuring clocks and timekeepers through the ages. Read the opening speech given by author Richard Dawkins below, featured in his latest collection of essays, Science in the Soul
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Penguin Press designers win Creative Review 'Best in Book' award for craft and technical innovation

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.

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