Richard Dawkins

Essays on morality, mortality, and much more from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion. The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins is an enthusiastic declaration, a testament to the power of rigorous scientific examination to reveal the wonders of the world. In these essays, Dawkins revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote...

Cuando empezaba a despuntar el movimiento del nuevo ateísmo, los heraldos del ocaso religioso que acabarían siendo conocidos como los "Cuatro Jinetes" ―Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett y Sam Harris― se reunieron para tomar una copa y a modo de experimento grabaron la conversación. Así surgió esta charla rompedora y apasionante que enseguida se hizo viral. Los cuatro intelectuales, a cada cual más ocurrente, afrontan...

Did Newton unweave the rainbow by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don't lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution often is more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mysteries. With the wit,...

A preeminent scientist-and the world's most prominent atheist-asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11. With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion...

Release date supplied by publisher. Dawkins demonstrates how cooperation can evolve even in a basically selfish world.

Sifting through rich layers of scientific evidence, Dawkins' "The Greatest Show on Earth" is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument."

One of the world's bestselling science communicators, Dawkins gives readers an opportunity to rethink the big questions. In 12 fiercely funny, mind-expanding chapters, he explains how the natural world arose without a designer -- the improbability and beauty of the "bottom-up programming" that engineers an embryo or a flock of starlings -- and challenges head-on some of the most basic assumptions made by the world's religions.

Barker describes the intellectual and psychological path he followed in moving from fundamentalism to freethought. Godless includes sections on biblical morality, the historicity of Jesus, biblical contradictions, the unbelievable resurrection, and much more.

Veterinary scientist Mark Evans and comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg travel to South Africa's KwaZulu Natal Coast, where the body of a giant white shark weighing in at over 2,000 pounds and measuring almost 15 feet has been pulled up. It presents an international team of experts with a rare opportunity to explore this hunter's anatomy to find out how it has evolved into the oceans most feared predator.