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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100062355627

ISBN-139780062355621

eBay Product ID (ePID)8069183935

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TopicAtheism, General, Literary, Science & Technology

Book TitleAppetite for Wonder Low Price CD : the Making of a Scientist

Publication Year2014

LanguageEnglish

GenreReligion, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorRichard Dawkins

FormatCompact Disc

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Item Height0.8 In.

Item Length5.8 In.

Item Weight6.4 Oz

Item Width5.2 In.

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Reviews"Fantastic. [Offers] a fascinating glimpse of how one of today's most influential scientific minds blossomed into himself." -- Maria Popova, Brainpickings.org "Surprisingly intimate and moving. ... He is here to find out what makes us tick: to cut through the nonsense to the real stuff." -- The Guardian "Dawkins' style [is] clear and elegant as usual... a personal introduction to an important thinker and populariser of science. ... provide[s] a superb background to the academic and social climate of postwar British research." -- Financial Times

Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition

SynopsisIn his first memoir, Richard Dawkins shares a rare view into his early life, his intellectual awakening at Oxford, and his path to writing The Selfish Gene . He paints a vivid picture of his idyllic childhood in colonial Africa, and later at boarding school, where he began his career as a skeptic. Arriving at Oxford in 1959, Dawkins began to study zoology and was introduced to some of the university's legendary mentors as well as its tutorial system. It's to this unique educational system that Dawkins credits his awakening. In 1973, provoked by the dominance of group selection theory and inspired by the work of William Hamilton, Robert Trivers, and John Maynard Smith, he began to write a book he called, jokingly, "my bestseller." It was, of course, The Selfish Gene . This is an intimate memoir of the childhood and intellectual development of the evolutionary biologist and world-famous atheist and how he came to write what is widely held to be one of the most important books of the twentieth century., New York Timesbestselling author and renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins delivers an intimate look into his own childhood and intellectual development, illuminating his path to becoming one of the foremost thinkers in modern science today "A memoir that is funny and modest, absorbing and playful. Dawkins has written a marvelous love letter to science . . . and for this, the book will touch scientists and science-loving persons . . . Enchanting." --NPR, New York Times bestselling author and renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins delivers an intimate look into his own childhood and intellectual development, illuminating his path to becoming one of the foremost thinkers in modern science today "A memoir that is funny and modest, absorbing and playful. Dawkins has written a marvelous love letter to science . . . and for this, the book will touch scientists and science-loving persons . . . Enchanting." --NPR