NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 4, 2011
"Watch for this to be mooted and bruited in school board meetings to come. And score points for Dawkins, who does a fine job of explaining earthquakes and rainbows in the midst of baiting the pious."
A resounding denunciation of the enemies of science--namely, magical and supernatural thinking.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 18, 2006
"You needn't buy the total Dawkins package to glory in his having the guts to lay out the evils religions can do. Bible-thumpers doubtless will declare they've found their Satan incarnate."
Dawkins's passionate disavowal of religion and his "I can no other answer make" statement that he is an atheist--and why you should be, too.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 6, 2004
"One of Dawkins's best: a big, almost encyclopedic compendium bursting with information and ideas. "
Borrowing from Chaucer, Dawkins leads a grand tour of all surviving "pilgrims" to a "Canterbury" representing the very origin of life--and what a fantastic trip it is.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 29, 2009
"A pleasure in the face of so much scientific ignorance--biology rendered accessible and relevant to the utmost degree."
NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 29, 2003
"And evidence, brilliantly presented and celebrated, is what readers will find here."
Collection of mostly previously published pieces that's no déjà vu trip, but a pleasure-inducing voyage into scientific principles.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 29, 1995
"An excellent overview of the subject."
Dawkins (Zoology/Oxford Univ.) returns to the concerns of his The Blind Watchmaker (1986), presenting the case for Darwinian natural selection as the only reasonable explanation for biological diversity.
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