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Books do Furnish a Life

Books do Furnish a Life

  • Reading and Writing Science

RELEASED 06/05/2021

Science has never had a greater impact on our lives, or on the life of the planet than now. Never has it been more important to communicate the discoveries of science and to recognise the importance of great science literature.
For the first time, Books Do Furnish a Life brings together 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.
Including conversations with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley and more, this is a brilliant guide to the most exciting ideas of our time and their proponents and a sparkling addition to Dawkins' own remarkable canon of work.

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About the Author

Richard Dawkins

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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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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