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The God Delusion
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Richard Dawkins
Discovery" magazine has recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwins Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. In his "New York Times" bestseller, Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.
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The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins
An innovative book on evolution and the theory of natural selection that discusses how the so-called selfish gene can also be quite subtle. Includes stories from nature, such as the phenomenon of bees committing suicide by stinging to protect the hive, and birds risking their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk.
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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Richard Dawkins, Yan Wong
In works such as "The Selfish Gene" and "Unweaving the Rainbow," the renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has introduced the wonders of modern biology. Now this gifted science popularizer offers a masterwork: a wholly original tour backward through evolution.
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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Richard Dawkins (Read by)
This title identifies those aspects of the theory of evolution that people find hard to believe.
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A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
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Richard Dawkins
Bestselling author Dawkins offers another dazzling gift to his readers--his first collection of essays on what matters most to him, from science, religion and mysticism to today's educational methods.
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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
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Richard Dawkins
In Dawkins' view, human beings are vehicles of evolution--gene carriers whose primary purpose is propagation of their own genes. In this new book, he explains evolution as a flowing river of genes, demonstrating how genes meet, compete, unite, and sometimes separate to form new species.
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Climbing Mount Improbable
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Richard Dawkins
The metaphor of Mount Improbable is represented in the combination of perfection and improbability, which is epitomized in the seemingly 'designed' perfection of living things. Dawkins skillfully guides the reader on a breathtaking journey through the mountain's passes and up its many peaks to demonstrate that following the improbable path to ...
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Blind watchmaker.
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Richard Dawkins
This title identifies those aspects of the theory of evolution that people find hard to believe.
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
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Richard Dawkins
Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended, and so diminish beauty? Far from it, says the author, an acclaimed scientist. He says Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to the poetry of modern cosmology, in this tribute to scientific exploration.
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The Meme Machine
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Susan J Blackmore, Richard Dawkins (Foreword by)
This book supports Richard Dawkins's elaboration of Universal Darwinism, namely the assumption that units of culture (memes) are conveyed through a process of natural selection and imitation. The author maintains that memes influence the evolution of human behavior and account for behaviors such as celibacy and altruism. A New York Times Notable ...
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
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Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett (Afterword by)
In this influential and controversial book that has become a classic in popular science writing, Dawkins furthers his fascinating look at the evolution of life and natural selection.
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
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John Brockman (Editor), Richard Dawkins (Afterword by), Steven Pinker (Introduction by)
The author of "What We Believe but Cannot Prove" returns with another iconoclastic collection in which some of the world's leading scientific thinkers discuss ideas that are perilous for their potential practical uses and philosophical implications.
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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003
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Richard Dawkins (Editor), Tim Folger (Editor)
Bringing together the best and brightest writers on science and nature, this year's collection includes essays on such wide-ranging subjects as astronomy's new stars, archaeology, the Bible, "terminal" ice, and memory faults.
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Red Strangers
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Elspeth Huxley, Richard Dawkins (Introduction by)
Epic in its scale, Red Strangers spans four generations of Kikuyu family in Africa and their relationship with European settlers, nicknamed "red" strangers because of their sunburns. Huxley's engrossing portrait of a Kenyan tribe and their way of life, with its rituals, its beliefs, its codes and its morality, shows Europeans and their customs in ...
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The theory of evolution
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John Maynard Smith
This book describes how evolution theory has been confirmed, but at the same time transformed, by recent research.
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How to Keep Dinosaurs
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Robert Mash
Now running wild with all dinosaur (and humor) lovers: the "home care" guide to these rowdy pets. It's funny, its irresistible, it's been a bestseller-and now it's available at an amazing new, low price. "[A] delightful, tongue-in-cheek guide to the care and feeding of dinosaurs."--"VOYA" Congratulations! You're bringing home your very first ...
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God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory
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Niall Shanks, Richard Dawkins (Foreword by)
In the last fifteen years a controversial new theory of the origins of biological complexity and the nature of the universe has been fomenting bitter debates in education and science policy across North America, Europe, and Australia. Backed by intellectuals at respectable universities, Intelligent Design Theory (ID) proposes an alternative to ...
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Galapagos: The Islands That Changed the World
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Paul D Stewart, Richard Dawkins (Foreword by)
Rocky, fragile, beautiful, strange--the Galapagos archipelago is unlike any other place on earth. Its geology, its unique flora and fauna, and its striking role in human history intersect in surprising and dynamic ways. This book is the most wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated book available on the famous islands. Not since Darwin's ...
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The Extended Phenotype
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Richard Dawkins
The thesis of this look at the evolution of life and natural selection is that individual organisms are replicators that have extended phenotypic effects on the world at large, thus our genes have the ability to manipulate other individuals.
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The Great ape project : equality beyond humanity
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Paola Cavalieri, Peter Singer
The Great Ape Project has touched off many controversial ethical debates. In this volume, 34 of the world's most renowned primatologists and philosophers demand equal rights for all the apes that inhabit our planet.
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How to Keep Dinosaurs
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Richard Dawkins, Robert MASH, B.SC.
Congratulations! You're bringing home your very first pet dinosaur. But there's so much to think about and to prepare. Which dino gets on well with children or adapts best to life in a city apartment? What kind of food does it eat (and how can you avoid being its meal)? What bed would make it feel completely comfy? And what about a working ...
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The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as a Unit of Selection
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Richard Dawkins
People commonly view evolution as a process of competition between individuals--known as "survival of the fittest"--with the individual representing the "unit of selection." Richard Dawkins offers a controversial reinterpretation of that idea in The Extended Phenotype, now being reissued to coincide with the publication of the second edition of ...
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The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the 'Beagle'
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Professor Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins (Introduction by)
Easily the most influential book published in the nineteenth century, Darwin’s The Origin of Species is also that most unusual phenomenon, an altogether readable discussion of a scientific subject. On its appearance in 1859 it was immediately recognized by enthusiasts and detractors alike as a work of the greatest importance: the ...
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Narrow Roads of Gene Land: The Collected Papers of W. D. Hamilton Volume 2: Evolution of Sex
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W D Hamilton
W.D. Hamilton is considered by many the most important theoretical biologist of the 20th century. He has made major discoveries in evolutionary biology, genetics, and social behavior, and his essays continue to exert tremendous influence throughout the discipline. This second volume of his collected papers focuses on his groundbreaking work on sex ...
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Young Oxford Library of Science: 11-Volume Set
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Robin Kerrod (Editor), Richard Dawkins
An accessible new reference for students, The Young Oxford Library of Science is an 11-volume set that offers easy-to-find information on the physical, chemical, and biological sciences. Each volume explains its subject in language that is easy to understand and is written by its own expert author. Together, these volumes form a comprehensive ...
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