Exploring the extensive timeline of evolutionary history, this work delves into the insights it provides about life on Earth. The author, a renowned science writer and biologist, examines key events and transformations that have shaped the diversity of life, offering a profound understanding of our biological heritage and the interconnectedness of all living organisms. Through engaging narratives and scientific analysis, the book invites readers to reflect on the significance of evolution in understanding existence.
Ричард Докинз — выдающийся британский ученый-этолог и популяризатор науки, лауреат многих литературных и научных премий. Каждая новая книга Докинза становится бестселлером и вызывает бурные дискуссии. Его работы сыграли огромную роль в возрождении интереса к научным книгам, адресованным широкой читательской аудитории. Однако Докинз — не только автор теории мемов и страстный сторонник дарвиновской теории эволюции, но и не менее страстный атеист и материалист. В книге «Бог как иллюзия» он проявляет талант блестящего полемиста, обращаясь к острейшим и актуальнейшим проблемам современного мира. После выхода этой работы, сегодня уже переведенной на многие языки, Докинз был признан автором года, по версии «Reader’s Digest» и обрел целую армию восторженных поклонников и непримиримых противников. Споры не затихают. «Эту книгу обязан прочитать каждый», — считает британский журнал «The Economist».
Snívalo sa vám niekedy, že lietate? Predstavovali ste si, aké by to bolo, keby ste boli vtákom a mohli plachtiť po oblohe či sa na krídlach strmhlav vrhnúť k zemi? Lietaním sú deti fascinované už odmalička a Richard Dawkins, mysliteľ a vedec z Oxfordskej univerzity, je z neho rovnako nadšený aj v dospelosti. Vo svojej knihe skúma všetky aspekty letu, zvieracieho, ľudského i mechanického. Keďže zázrak lietania je votkaný do celej našej histórie, kniha vás prevedie príbehmi od bájneho Ikara až po boeing 747. Aké sú rozdiely medzi vtákmi, ktoré sa vyvinuli evolúciou, a lietajúcimi strojmi skonštruovanými ľuďmi? Ako sa ľuďom podarilo prekonať zákony gravitácie? Autor okrem ľudského spoločenstva a živočíšnej ríše skúma aj fascinujúce lety, ktorých je schopná naša myseľ - úniky z reality, a to všetko prostredníctvom vedy a predstavivosti.
Richard Dawkins postanowił zmierzyć się z potężnym przeciwnikiem - religią.
Nie ma większego znaczenia, do którego boga i której religii się odnosi, gdyż
autor podważa sens istnienia wszystkich religii na świecie. Autor z
wykształcenia jest biologiem, i jak można się domyślić, podaje liczne naukowe
dowody na nieistnienie boga. Co więcej, postrzega religię jako źródło
wszelkiego zła. Autor podważa wszelkie teorie kreacjonistów. Zwraca uwagę, że
religie miały tysiące lat, by się wykazać i udowodnić, że są człowiekowi
potrzebne. A że tego nie uczyniły, lepiej w końcu zastąpić je nauką.
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.
'A rich feast of his essays, reviews, forewords, squibs and conversations, in which talent and passion are married to deep knowledge.' Matt Ridley 'Enjoy the unfailing clarity of his thought and prose, as well as the grandeur of his vision of life on Earth.' - Mark Cocker, Spectator 'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times 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. 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. Plenty of other scientists write well, but no one writes like Dawkins... here is Dawkins the teacher, the scholar, the polemicist, the joker, the aesthete, the poet, the satirist, the man of compassion as well as indignation, the slayer of superstition and, above all, the scientist. - Areo Magazine
One of the world's bestselling science communicators, Dawkins gives readers an opportunity to rethink the big questions. In 12 fiercely funny, mind-expanding chapters, he explains how the natural world arose without a designer--the improbability and beauty of the "bottom-up programming" that engineers an embryo or a flock of starlings--and challenges head-on some of the most basic assumptions made by the world's religions
Known as the "four horsemen" of the New Atheism, four thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their examination of ideas was wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas and exchanged insights about religion and atheism, science and sense speaks to our present age. The dialogue was recorded, and is transcribed and presented in this book
Should we believe in God? This book explains why we shouldn't. In twelve chapters that address some of the most profound questions human beings confront, Dawkins marshals science, philosophy and comparative religion to interrogate the hypocrisies of all the religious systems and explain to readers of all ages how life emerged without a creator, how evolution works and how our world came into being
