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Books do Furnish a Life

  • Imprint: Bantam Press

  • ISBN: 9781787633681

  • Length: 464  Pages

  • Dimensions: 241mm x 40mm x 163mm

  • Weight: 697g

  • RRP: £25.00

Books do Furnish a Life

  • An electrifying celebration of science writing

RELEASED 06/05/2021

'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.

  • Imprint: Bantam Press

  • ISBN: 9781787633681

  • Length: 464  Pages

  • Dimensions: 241mm x 40mm x 163mm

  • Weight: 697g

  • RRP: £25.00

Reviews

  • Richard Dawkins is fine scientist, rigorous thinker and supremely gifted writer. His books are justly famous, but his shorter works are just as good. Here is a rich feast of his essays, reviews, forewords, squibs and conversations, in which talent and passion are married to deep knowledge.

    Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works

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Richard Dawkins

In 1995 Richard Dawkins became the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the bestselling author of THE SELFISH GENE, THE BLIND WATCHMAKER (Penguin, 1988) and CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE (Penguin, 1996).

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Events

Richard Dawkins in conversation with Matt Ridley, 6 May 2021
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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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