Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science

By Richard Dawkins

Book Overview

For the first time, this is a collection of our greatest science writer's commentary on the best of contemporary science literature, including exclusive new material from other great thinkers

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529176492
• ISBN13: 9781529176490
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Transworld
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 7.6"