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El. knyga: Books do Furnish a Life: An electrifying celebration of science writing

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  • Išleidimo metai: 06-May-2021
  • Leidėjas: Penguin (Transworld)
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781473579491
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  • Leidėjas: Penguin (Transworld)
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For the first time, this is a collection of our greatest science writer's commentary on the best of contemporary science literature, including exclusive new material from other great thinkers

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.


'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times

'It may be a collection of shorter parts, but the book is in no sense Dawkins made simple. It amounts to a substantive whole which offers a unitary panoramic view across his entire intellectual life.' Spectator

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.

Plenty of other scientists write well, but no one writes like Dawkins... here is Dawkins the teacher, the scholar, the polemicist, the joker, the aesthete, the poet, the satirist, the man of compassion as well as indignation, the slayer of superstition and, above all, the scientist. - Areo Magazine

Recenzijos

Much more than just a collection of journalism, this has an overarching unity and presents a panoramic survey of his intellectual career. There are occasional moments of delicious savagery as Dawkins dismantles an opponent. Much more often he celebrates the work of fellow scientists and throughout the entire 460 pages, one can enjoy the unfailing clarity of his thought and prose, as well as the grandeur of his vision of life on Earth. -- Mark Cocker * Spectator *

Editor's introduction 1(3)
Author's introduction: The literature of science 4(15)
I TOOLS OF TWO TRADES: WRITING SCIENCE
19(84)
In conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson: On science and scientists, in public and private
21(17)
The uncommon sense of science
38(6)
Are we all related?
44(3)
The timeless and the topical
47(7)
Fighting on two fronts
54(3)
Pornophilosophy
57(5)
Determinism and dialectics: a tale of sound and fury
62(7)
Tutorial-driven teaching
69(7)
Life after light
76(3)
A scientific education and the Deep Problems
79(6)
Rationalist, iconoclast, Renaissance man
85(5)
Revisiting The Selfish Gene
90(13)
II WORLDS BEYOND WORDS: CELEBRATING NATURE
103(58)
In conversation with Adam Hart-Davis: Evolution and plain writing in science
105(11)
Close encounters with the truth
116(4)
Conserving communities
120(9)
Darwin on the slab
129(3)
Life within life
132(6)
Pure delight in a godless universe
138(5)
Travelling with Darwin
143(15)
Pictures of paradise
158(3)
III INSIDE THE SURVIVAL MACHINE: EXPLORING HUMANITY
161(106)
Inconversation with Steven Pinker: Language, learning and debugging the brain
163(13)
Old brain, new brain
176(7)
Breaking the species barrier
183(4)
Branching out
187(5)
Darwinism and human purpose
192(7)
Worlds in microcosm
199(22)
Real genes and virtual worlds
221(8)
Nice guys (still) finish first
229(5)
Art, advertisement and attraction
234(6)
From African Eve to the Banda strandlopers
240(13)
We are Stardust
253(2)
The descent of Edward Wilson
255(12)
IV THE MINER'S CANARY: SUPPORTING SCEPTICISM
267(60)
In conversation with Christopher Hitchens: Is America heading for theocracy?
269(10)
Witness of internal delusion
279(5)
Kicking the habit
284(3)
The unburdening lightness of relief
287(3)
A public and political atheist
290(6)
The great escape
296(2)
In His own words: a portrait of God
298(4)
Liberation from theology
302(7)
The God Temptation
309(4)
The intellectual and moral courage of atheism
313(14)
V COUNSEL FOR THE PROSECUTION: INTERROGATING FAITH
327(46)
In conversation with Lawrence Krauss: Should science speak to faith?
329(9)
Defending the wall of separation
338(6)
A moral and intellectual emergency
344(3)
Unmasking the design illusion
347(5)
`Nothing will come of nothing': why Lear was wrong
352(5)
The fast food thesis: religion as evolutionary by-product
357(4)
An ambitious banana skin
361(4)
Heavenly twins
365(3)
A tale of horror and heroism
368(5)
VI TENDING THE FLAME: EVANGELIZING EVOLUTION
373(56)
In conversation with Matt Ridley: From Darwin to DNA - and beyond
375(11)
The `little Penguin' relaunched
386(7)
Foxes in the snow
393(8)
Telling truth in a dark time
401(6)
Irresponsible publishing?
407(7)
Inferior design
414(4)
The only kind of truth that works
418(11)
Epilogue: To be read at my funeral 429(2)
Sources and acknowledgements 431(6)
Bibliography of works cited 437(4)
Index 441
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 an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and a fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the worlds top thinker in Prospect magazines poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.
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