Books by Richard Dawkins

Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and controversial book which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist?

While Europe is becoming increasingly secularized, the rise of religious fundamentalism, whether in the Middle East or Middle America, is dramatically and dangerously dividing opinion around the world. In this book, the author attacks God in all his forms. It shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry and abuses children.

Richard Dawkins explores the wonder of flight. A book for ages 8-80 about flying - from the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but magnificent bird Argentavis magnificens, to the British Airways pilots of today.

These fantastical myths are fun - but what are the real answers to such questions?Professor Richard Dawkins has teamed up with renowned illustrator Dave McKean to take you on an amazing journey from atoms to animals, pollination to paranoia, the big bang to the bigger picture.

What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen? Are we alone? Have you heard the tale of how the sun hatched out of an emu's egg? Has anyone ever told you that earthquakes are caused by a sneezing giant? This title answers all these questions.

A dazzling, passionate polemic against anti-science movements of all kinds. Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours. In this illuminating and provocative book, Richard Dawkins argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken, and shows how an understanding of science enhances our wonder of the world. He argues that mysteries do not lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution is often more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering even deeper mysteries. Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, combining them in a landmark statement on the human appetite for wonder.

'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times'It may be a collection of shorter parts, but the book is in no sense Dawkins made simple.

Kom med på en pilgrimsvandring på livets vej. Den starter i nutiden, hvor vi mennesker begiver os tilbage mod fortiden og vores forfædre. Undervejs møder vi vores slægtninge, som alle har en historie at fortælle: først chimpanser, så de andre aber, senere gnavere, krybdyr, fisk og mange andre, helt tilbage til encellede mikroorganismer og livets oprindelse. Gennem fortællingerne hører vi om de processer, der tilsammen former livets udvikling. Richard Dawkins' indsigtsfulde og opfindsomme tilgang til emnet gør det muligt at vise forbindelserne mellem os og alle andre levende væsener på en ny og spændende måde. Han benytter også lejligheden til at fortælle mere om nogle af de fængslende aspekter af evolutionær historie og teori: kønnet formering, artsdannelse, evolutionær konvergens, udryddelse, genetik, pladetektonik, geografisk udbredelse og meget mere. Vores forfædres fortælling kommer vidt omkring i den fascinerende historie om livet på Jorden og viser os, hvor bemærkelsesværdige vi er, hvor forbløffende en historie vi har, og hvor tæt vi er forbundet med alt levende.

With an introduction and new commentary by the author, subjects range from evolution and Darwinian natural selection to the role of scientist as prophet, whether science is itself a religion, the probability of alien life in other worlds, and the beauties, cruelties and oddities of earthly life in this one.

How could such an intricate object as the human eye - so complex and so precise - have come about by chance? In this masterful piece of popular science, Richard Dawkins builds a powerful and carefully reasoned argument for evolutionary adapatation as the force behind all life on earth. The metaphor of 'Mount Improbable' represents the combination of perfection and improbability that we find in the seemingly 'designed' complexity of living things. And through it all runs the thread of DNA, the molecule of life, responsible for its own destiny on an unending pilgrimage through time. Evocative illustrations accompany Dawkins' eloquent descriptions of astonishing adaptations in the living world.