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Richard Dawkins
The Magic of Reality

How We Know What's Really True

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Author: Richard Dawkins
Title: The Magic of Reality
Illustrated by: Dave McKean
Publication Date: September 11, 2012
Publisher: Free Pres
Pages: 272
List Price: $16.00
File Format: PDF
File Size: 119 MB

Description

Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. Here, he takes a broader approach and uses his unrivaled explanatory powers to illuminate the ways in which the world really works. Filled with clever thought experiments and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena: How old is the universe? Why do the continents look like disconnected pieces of a jigsaw puzzle? What causes tsunamis? Why are there so many kinds of plants and animals? Who was the first man, or woman? Starting with the magical, mythical explanations for the wonders of nature, Dawkins reveals the exhilarating scientific truths behind these occurrences. This is a page-turning detective story that not only mines all the sciences for its clues but primes the reader to think like a scientist as well.

Table of Contents

1. What is reality? What is magic?
2. Who was the first person?
3. Why are mere so many different kinds of animals?
4. What are things made of?
5. Why do we have night and day, winter and summer?
6. What is the sun?
7. What is a rainbow?
8. When and how did everything begin?
9. Are we alone?
10. What is an earthquake?
11. Why do bad things happen?
12. What is a miracle?
Acknowledgements
Index

About the Author

Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of the Royal Society and was the inaugural holder of the Charles
Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the acclaimed author
of many books including The Selfish Gene, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow,
The Ancestor’s Tale, The God Delusion, and The Greatest Show on Earth. Visit him at RichardDawkins.net: http://http//www.richarddawkins.net

Dave McKean has illustrated and designed many award-winning comics and books
as well as CD covers, a Broadway musical, and creatures for the Harry Potter films.