Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder - Rilegato

Dawkins, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0395883822 ISBN 13: 9780395883822

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin, 1999

Riassunto

The author of The Selfish Gene offers a witty and insightful assessment of what science is, how it feeds the human appetite for wonder, and how "unweaving" the mysteries of science can be even more beautiful than the mystery itself. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

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Recensione:

"A spellbinding storyteller." The New York Times

"Brilliance and wit." The New Yorker

"An extended rebuttal - not so much by argument as by radiant example - of perennial anti-science convictions. Few among us are better qualified for the job. If any recent writing about science is poetic, it is this." The Wall Street Journal

"Like an extended stay on a brain health-farm . . .You come out feeling lean, tuned and enormously more intelligent." The Times of London

L'autore:

Richard Dawkins taught zoology at the University of California at Berkeley and at Oxford University and is now the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position he has held since 1995. Among his previous books are The Ancestor’s Tale, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, and A Devil’s Chaplain. Dawkins lives in Oxford with his wife, the actress and artist Lalla Ward.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0395883822
• ISBN 13: 9780395883822
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 337