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An Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? And who inspired him to become the pioneering scientist and public thi ...Show more
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
In An Appetite for WonderRichard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he continues ...Show more
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he continue ...Show more
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
$31.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
In Climbing Mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, builds a powerful and carefully reasoned argument for evolutionary adaptation as the force behind all life on earth. What drives species to evolve? How can intricate structures such as the human eye, the spider's web or the wings ...Show more
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide by Richard Dawkins
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science writer and author of The God Delusion, explains why we shouldn't. Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe? Do we need God in order to be good? In twelve chap ...Show more
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide by Richard Dawkins
$24.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Should we believe in God? In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the world's greatest science writers tells us why we shouldn't.Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God. Deeply impressed by the beauty and complexity of living things, he'd felt certain they must have had ...Show more
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life by Richard Dawkins
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Science Masters Ser.
The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author of THE GOD DELUSION, Richard Dawkins. The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that D ...Show more
Science in the Soul -Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist by Richard Dawkins
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Science in the Soul is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power and the glory of science. Breathtaking, brilliant and passionate, the essays, journalism, lectures and letters in this new collection make an unanswerable case for the wonder of scientific discovery and its power to stir the imagination; for ...Show more
Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist by Richard Dawkins; Gillian Somerscales (ed.)
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER.Richard Dawkins - author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion- is one of science's greatest communicators. This anthology of more than forty pieces is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power and the glory of science. Breathtaking, brilliant and passiona ...Show more
The Ancestor's Tale HBK : A Pilgrimage to the dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins
$80.00 NZD
Category: World History
One of the most brilliant scientists of our age gives us his definitive work: a synthesis of his comprehensive vision of lifeThe Ancestor's Tale is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims along the route as we and they converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanz ...Show more
The Four Horsemen: Dawkins, Harris, Dennett & Hitchens by Richard Dawkins; Daniel C. Dennett; Sam Harris; Christopher Hitchens
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Known as the 'four horsemen' of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas an ...Show more
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
The God Delusioncaused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. While E ...Show more