An elegant, text-only edition of the New York Times bestseller that’s been hailed as the definitive authority on…everything by Richard Dawkins.
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.
- 272 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Social SciencesTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Chapter 1: What is reality? What is magic?
- Chapter 2: Who was the first person?
- Chapter 3: Why are there so many different kinds of animals?
- Chapter 4: What are things made of?
- Chapter 5: Why do we have night and day, winter and summer?
- Chapter 6: What is the sun?
- Chapter 7: What is a rainbow?
- Chapter 8: When and how did everything begin?
- Chapter 9: Are we alone?
- Chapter 10: What is an earthquake?
- Chapter 11: Why do bad things happen?
- Chapter 12: What is a miracle?
- Acknowledgements
- About Richard Dawkins and Dave McKean
- Index
- Copyright
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