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Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion
The Disinformation Company, 2007
Essential Reading
This book is highly recommended for just one of it's many sections - I am referring to the article by Ruth Green entitled "The God From Galilee" which analyses the gospels in a way that reveals a very different side to Jesus Christ than that with which most people ...
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author
Richard Dawkins
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006
One of those milestone books
I love the way Richard Dawkins writes. Highly logical, and always covering his tracks to avoid misinterpretation as is so likely to happen in this case. I loved the second chapter. For a long time I had wondered how evolutionary theory could explain the beginning of ...
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The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
Mariner Books, 2008
The evils of religion
This book just reinforced my true feelings about religion. If you look at things in a logical & orderly manner, it just doesn't seem to make any sense what-so-ever. Just think of how much more pleasant the world would be without the hatred & war that religion has ...
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Climbing Mount Improbable
Richard Dawkins
W. W. Norton & Company, 1997
Evolution of eyes, spiderwebs, wings, and clamshells
Many people find it difficult to understand how complex structures like eyes and wings evolved through random evolution. Dawkins does a thorough job here laying out just how evolution works. He makes it clear that evolution is not random--it is the accumulation of ...
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Richard Dawkins
W. W. Norton, 1996
A Good Introduction To and Defense of Evolution
This book is another fine effort by Richard Dawkins to explain how the complexity of life can be explained by evolution including natural selection. He uses his usual detailed, but laymen type of explanation to explore how various attributes of animals (and man) have ...
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
Richard Dawkins
Mariner Books, 2005
Delightful
This book is an extremely enjoyable and edifying read. Dawkins writes with wit, fluency, clarity and erudition; very readable, though people without much biology background might find it tough going at times. I can hear Dawkins' voice as I read; the writing has that ...
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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
If this book doesn't jump start your interest in science, you just might be a redneck....
Dawkins' frequently claims that there is a much richer contemplative nature to a scientific view of the universe than in a view dominated by a "notion of a 'supreme being'." This anthology delivers the punch to this claim and does so with an amazing spectrum of ideas. ...
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A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
Richard Dawkins
Mariner Books, 2004
Nobody does it better, but . . .
Richard Dawkins is more eloquent in explaining biology and more forthright in disparaging its critics than anyone else writing in English today. However, the Greeks said even Homer nods, and I want to pursue a thread in this collection of reviews, prefaces and articles ...
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Richard Dawkins
Mariner Books, 2000
A tour de force of scientific reasoning
After reading Richard Dawkins lucid explanation of why things are they way they are, the rainbow seems even more beautiful. The book is yet another example of Richard Dawkins' ability to eloquently provide simplified and lucid explanations to the wonders around us ...
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
Richard Dawkins
Oxford University Press, USA, 1999
More delving for truth, less bashing falsehood
Lots of people seem to know about Dawkins as a Enthusiastic Bright, or at least as a 'staunch atheist'. Selfish Gene takes digs at religion. Blind Watchmaker certainly takes digs at religion. Ancestor's Tale even seems to have some (though I've not got all through it ...
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River Out Of Eden: A Darwinian View Of Life (Science Masters Series)
Richard Dawkins
Basic Books, 1996
DNA just is and we dance to its Music
As mentioned in other reviews of Dawkins's books I enjoy his writing and his passion for explaining science to the general public in an understandable way. I have given this book 5 stars because of the way he explain his arguments... although I don't agree with them. ...
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution (Cambridge Reference Book)
Cambridge University Press, 1994
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution
Excellent work. In depth treatment of the subject yet accesible to everyone.It covers every imaginable aspect of human evolution by the men and woman that are at the frontiers of this science.
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On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
CSA Word, 2008
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The Theory of Evolution (Canto)
John Maynard Smith
Cambridge University Press, 1993
One of the finest introductions to evolutionary science
This summary of evolutionary theory by the dean of the British school is essential reading for those who would understand the issues argued by Dawkins and Gould. It is an engrossing read, but is not trivially easy, despite having the appearance of a popularization. I ...
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 (The Best American Series)
Houghton Mifflin, 2003
Mixed bag ý exactly as it should be
The best thing about a collection of essays like this is that you get to read articles by writers you've never heard of, on topics you never realized could be at least interesting and sometimes even compelling. The writing ranges from dry and technical to almost purely ...
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