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Books Do Furnish a Life

An Electrifying Celebration of Science Writing

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Books Do Furnish a Life

By: Richard Dawkins
Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Adam Hart-Davis, Steven Pinker, Christopher Hitchens, Lawrence Krauss, Matt Ridley
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Including conversations with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley and more, this is an essential guide to the most exciting ideas of our time and their proponents from our most brilliant science communicator. This audio edition also includes Richard Dawkins in conversation with Christopher Hitchens, in what was to be Christopher Hitchens' last interview before his death in 2011.

Books Do Furnish a Life is divided by theme, including celebrating nature, exploring humanity, and interrogating faith. For the first time, it brings together Richard Dawkins' forewords, afterwords and introductions to the work of some of the leading thinkers of our age - Carl Sagan, Lawrence Krauss, Jacob Bronowski, Lewis Wolpert - with a selection of his reviews to provide an electrifying celebration of science writing, both fiction and non-fiction. It is also a sparkling addition to Dawkins' own remarkable canon of work.

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"Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer." (Sunday Times)

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An excellent collection of writings, interviews and book prefaces that illuminate how we still have no greater understanding of our place in the world than via (what Dennett called) Darwin's Dangerous Idea.
Richard Dawkins provides not just the intellectual oomph to firmly place scientific reason above religious mumbo jumbo, he does it with poetic beauty.
His final words in this book entitled, what to read at my funeral are of such beauty the Finnish Symphonic metal band Nightwish engaged Richard to record these words to form part of their song, The Greatest Show on Earth. look on YT for a live version where Dawkins himself recites on stage to thousands of adoring fans. We'll worth a listen.

Dawkins never disappoints

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