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Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist [Lingua inglese] Copertina flessibile – 1 maggio 2018

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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 passionate, these essays, journalism, lectures and letters make an unanswerable case for the wonder of scientific discovery and its power to stir the imagination; for the practical necessity of scientific endeavour to society; and for the importance of the scientific way of thinking – particularly in today’s ‘post-truth’ world.

With an introduction and new commentary by the author, subjects range from evolution and Darwinian natural selection to the role of scientist as prophet, whether science is itself a religion, the probability of alien life in other worlds, and the beauties, cruelties and oddities of earthly life in this one. Alongside the explications, the celebrations and the controversies are wonderfully funny ventures into satire and parody, and moving personal reflections in memory and honour of others.

Science in the Soul is a sparkling showcase for Professor Dawkins' rapier wit, the clarity, precision and vigour he brings to an argument, the beauty of his prose, the depth of his feeling and his capacity for joy.

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Inglese
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Random Uk
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1 maggio 2018
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21.6 x 13.8 x 2.77 cm
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9781784162016
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978-1784162016
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[Dawkins] is a thunderously gifted science writer -- Oliver Moody ― The Times

One of the best non-fiction writers alive today ― Steven Pinker

The illumination of Dawkins’ incisive thinking on the intellectual world extends far beyond biology. What a treat to see so clearly how matter and meaning fit together, from fiction to philosophy to molecular biology, all in one unified vision!’ Daniel C. Dennett ― Daniel C. Dennett

In this golden age of enlightened science writing it is stunning that no scientist has ever won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Pulitzer Prizes, yes, but it is time literature's highest award be granted to a scientist whose writings have changed not just science but society. No living scientist is more deserving of such recognition than Richard Dawkins, whose every book reflects his literary genius and scientific substance. Science in the Soul is the perfect embodiment of Nobel quality literature." -- Michael Shermer, Publisher Skeptic magazine, columnist Scientific American, author The Moral Arc and Heavens on Earth

I thank Thor and Zeus that in their infinite wisdom they chose to make the great wordsmith of our age a great rationalist and vice versa. -- Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist and The Evolution of Everything

A writer of tremendous clarity and force...in full polemical flight, Dawkins is a marvel. -- Kevin Powers ― Sunday Business Post Published On: 2017-07-09

This Dawkins is a dangerous guy. Like Marx. Or Darwin. ― W. Daniel Hillis

The most influential man of reason…intellectually rigorous to a fault. -- Oliver Thring ― Sunday Times News Review Published On: 2017-07-30

With his latest book, ‘Science in the Soul’, Richard Dawkins continues the legacy of Carl Sagan, though of course, in a more combative mode...
Richard Dawkins is one of the best science popularisers of our times. He is also an eminent evolutionary biologist...
All the articles in this compilation are ultimately soul-elevating in the sense that they emphasise the importance of reason and spirit of science in approaching many of the problems which we may think as being outside the realm of science or domains where inducing a hostility to a scientific approach is possible....
Dawkins is an extraordinarily talented author and persuader ...Dawkins also comes across in this collection of essays as a warm rational scientist who is interestingly so open to the innocent human fascination for the grandeur of nature.

-- Aravindan Neelakandan ― Swarajya Magazine Published On: 2017-09-03

Dawkins at his most delicious. These are some of the finest treasures of non-fiction you'll find anywhere ― Derren Brown

Now, more than ever, public intellectual scientists like Dawkins are needed to counter the forces of faith, fiction, and farce dominating our so-called “post-fact” society.

The Oxford University professor is the embodiment of the concept of the public intellectual

-- Iain Ellis ― www.popmatters.com Published On: 2017-01-11

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Richard Dawkins is author of The Selfish Gene, voted The Royal Society's Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time, and also the bestsellers The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor's Tale, The God Delusion, and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder and Brief Candle in the Dark. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford and both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world’s top thinker in Prospect magazine’s poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1784162019
Editore ‏ : ‎ Random Uk (1 maggio 2018)
Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
Copertina flessibile ‏ : ‎ 448 pagine
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781784162016
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1784162016
Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 300 g
Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 21.6 x 13.8 x 2.77 cm

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J. Blilie

Dawkins is Always Relevant and a Good Read; but Not His Best Work

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 22 settembre 2017

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This is a typical Dawkins book: Opinionated, well-written, and mostly covering his usual topics of evolution and religion. Much of it is transcripts of his public lectures for significant lecture events/series.

I am a big Dawkins fan; and I own and have read *all* of his books (many of them more than once). I really enjoyed his recent two-part autobiography: An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist and Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science .

There are a few areas where I am specifically critical of this latest book:
* It doesn't flow well for me. There are a couple of reasons for this I think. Much of it was originally delivered as lectures and I think the specific language used on those occasions is not as interesting to me as his other stand-alone writing. In addition, there are copious notes added later by Dawkins to explain or expand on his earlier writing. These are interspersed with the original text. Sometimes they take up more room on the page than the article itself (original text). I understand his reasons for wanting to preserve the original (and he explains them) while also wanting to update the work. But this method does not work well for me: It is very distracting from the original text. I would have much preferred it if he had added an additional short essay/explanation/historical note at the end of each chapter as a stand-alone piece.
* Much of this book plows the same field(s) that Dawkins has plowed before, but better, in previous works, in my opinion. I felt, in a fair number of places, that I had heard this all before. This probably goes with the territory of a retrospective collection of lectures and articles.
* I did not care for the introductory segments written by his editor, Gillian Somerscales. Probably just personal preferences for style here.

I hate to give Dr. Dawkins' work a review anything less than 5 stars; but there it is: 4 stars. As I told my wife as I read it: It's not Dawkins' best work.

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William Orr

A very knowledgeable man

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 4 dicembre 2022

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I find Richard Dawkins brilliant. He is eloquent and a pioneer in his field. You may find him arrogant and pompous though.

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K. MCBRIDE

Outstanding!

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 13 ottobre 2017

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Another magnificent work by a brilliant mind told with clarity and sense of humor! A tribute also to Gillian Somerscales as editor, well done, and dedicated to another brilliant mind, Christopher Hitchens! Fortunately, I have had the opportunity to read ALL of Dawkins’ works, several more than once especially The God Delusion, to attempt to grasp his thoughts and observations of rational reality. I have also had the pleasure of attendance to his presentations at both University of Virginia and at Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia and personally witnessed the Liberty University student evangelical fundamentalist questions to Richard Dawkins, including the ludicrous statement that Liberty University possessed a three thousand year old dinosaur fossil with the appropriate Dawkins’ reply, “leave and go to a proper university!” I owe a personal “Thanks” to Richard Dawkins, to include all the four Horsemen, Victor Stenger, and D. M. Murdock (Acharya S) for unveiling the absurdities of myth! Voltaire said, “Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities” and as reflected by Steven Weinberg’s frequently quoted comment “for good people to do evil, that takes religion.” All of this work is worth the read to include memories of note about his father and uncle. In particular, the Germ Oil (or as Dawkins describes its scientific name of Geriniol, a powerful drug while harmless at low use, can be very dangerous and hallucinogenic), that is a “Keeper” of delightful satire reflecting insightful truth.

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karin1910

Ansichten eines großen Denkers

Recensito in Germania il 26 luglio 2017

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Richard Dawkins gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Wissenschaftler und Intellektuellen der Gegenwart. Dieser Band versammelt 41 Schriften zu den verschiedensten Themen, die er in den letzten vierzig Jahren verfasst hat, wobei "neuere" Text aber überwiegen. Sie illustrieren sehr gut das breite Spektrum an Fragen und Problemstellungen, mit denen er sich im Rahmen seines öffentlichen Wirkens bereits auseinandersetzte.

Überlegungen zum Wesen der Wissenschaft bzw zu den Vorteilen des wissenschaftlichen Denkens sowie zu verschiedenen Facetten der Evolutionsbiologie nehmen breiten Raum ein, aber auch Religionskritik und Spitzen gegen Kreationisten kommen nicht zu kurz. Garniert wird das Ganze beispielsweise durch Gedanken zum Justizsystem oder zur Sinnhaftigkeit von Feuerwerken.
Viele, teilweise sehr ausführliche Fußnoten geben dabei interessante Hintergrundinformationen und ermöglichen es, die einzelnen Beiträge im richtigen Kontext zu sehen.

Für Leser, die sich bereits näher mit Dawkins Werken befasst haben, wird dieses Buch rein inhaltlich vermutlich nicht besonders viel Neues bieten. Dennoch ist es absolut empfehlenswert und stellenweise richtig fesselnd. Es gelingt dem Autor hervorragend, seine Gedanken und Aussagen in klarer (und auch für Leute mit durchschnittlichen Englisch-Kenntnissen verständlicher) Sprache auf den Punkt zu bringen, schlüssig zu argumentieren und seine Ausführungen immer wieder mit einigem Humor zu würzen. Daher ist die Lektüre sowohl informativ als auch unterhaltsam.

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Niklas Dude

Caught me off guard

Recensito in Germania il 23 ottobre 2017

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As a reader of "the God Delusion" and "the Greatest Show on Earth" i initially skipped the first two chapters (because they bored me, to be honest.) and started reading at " III. Future Conditional", which really caught me off guard in terms of capturing my interest, from then on reading an article or two from it in the morning after waking up and in the evening before going to bed ( the book is mostly a collection of Dawkins newspaper appearances/ speeches). If you like Dawkins style of writing you will love this book, it was very interesting to read some of his earlier work and there is quiet some funny stuff too in here.

9/10 Because of the first chapter which didn't really catch my interest but might be worth reading for someone new to Dawkins. Would read again, hope to see another volume like this from Dawkins in the future.

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