Lower Sixth Form Arguments: a Concise Critique.. Christianity (viz. the Vatican) is not against science, Gallileo's trial was political and not science based (heliocentricity theory being no...
Turns life inside out. The author writes about living things as if the gene is the animal and the animal is simply a seed for the gene. He basically turns life inside out. It's a powerful mi...
An Excellent Collection. This book contains a superb collection of excerpts from books and essays of some of the world's greatest scientists. The amount of ideas discussed is truly mind-expa...
Badly written and unbalanced. For me, this book was preaching to the converted - I have a good understanding of evolution and can't see how any reasonable scientist could argue with the posi...
Why do poets and artists so often disparage science in their work? For that matter, why does so much scientific literature compare poorly with, say, the phone book? After struggling with ...
Just as we trace our personal family trees from parents to grandparents and so on back in time, so in The Ancestor's Tale Richard Dawkins traces the ancestry of life. As he is at pains to po...
Laborious, boring, and discouraging.. I abandoned this book as it is utterly boring. It is certainly not a page-turner. Its author has a patronising and discouraging attitude. He underestima...
A great very accessible book on evolution. I read this one after the 30th anniversary of The Selfish Gene, and though Dawkins states in his intro that he regards this as his best work, I per...
The Salmon of Doubt is the late Douglas Adams' third comic novel about "holistic detective" Dirk Gently. Ten tantalising chapters of this unfinished project are padded to book size...
Those unfamiliar with the writings of Richard Dawkins could do worse than begin with The Devil's Chaplain--a collection of pieces selected from the many articles, lectures, book reviews, pol...
