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Brought to you by Penguin.A dazzling, passionate polemic against anti-science movements of all kindsKeats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours. In this illuminating and provocative book, Richard Dawkins argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken, and shows how an understanding of sc...
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'The Ancestor's Tale' is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we and they converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join us at about 6 million years in the past, orangutans at 14 million years, as we stride on together, a growing band. The journey provides the setting for a collection of some 40...
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In 'An Appetite for Wonder' we join Richard Dawkins on a personal journey back to an enchanting childhood in colonial Africa. There, the exotic natural world was his constant companion. Boarding school in England at the age of eight, and, later, public school at Oundle introduce Dawkins, and the reader, to strange rules and eccentric schoolmasters,...
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Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods' bridge to earth. These are magical, extraordinary tales. But there is another kind of magic, and it lies in the exhilaration of discovering the real answers to these questions. It is th...
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In this audiobook Dawkins argues for the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm it has inflicted on society. He suggests that while Europe is becoming increasingly securalised, the rise of religious fundamentalism, whether in the Middle East or Middle America, is dangerously dividing opinion around the world - and all from belief in a...
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