Richard Dawkins Livres

A quinze ans, Dan Barker a plac sa vie sous le signe de la bible en dcidant de devenir pasteur. Persuad du retour imminent de Jsus, il a parcouru les Etats-Unis et le Mexique pour sauver des mes. Il a vou sa vie Dieu. Et puis, au fil des ans et des prches, il lui est apparu que quelque chose clochait avec les enseignements des vangiles. Il s'est demand comment un Dieu de bont pouvait avoir cr un monde si plein de malheurs et de souffrances. Il a travers toutes les tapes du doute et du questionnement. Il a craint de renoncer un statut qui lui valait le respect de tous. Mais il a finalement rejet la foi pour devenir l'un des plus fervents dfenseurs de la raison et de l'humanisme. Ce n'est pas seulement ce cheminement hors du commun qu'il nous raconte ici. Il expose galement toutes les raisons qu'il y a de rfuter l'existence d'un dieu tel que le dcrivent les religions. Il examine avec acuit toutes les failles du christianisme : incohrences des vangiles, historicit douteuse de Jsus, construction de la lgende de la rsurrection, mensonges des pres de l'Eglise. Il se penche enfin sur les problmes que pose la bible comme source de morale : inefficacit de prceptes absolus et contradictoires, possibilit d'interprtations divergentes, mdiocrit des "modles" proposs. Dlivr de Dieu, Dan Barker s'est trouv dbarrass de croyances absurdes et irrationnelles qui, au final, apportent aux hommes davantage de discorde que de consolation.

Ze srovnání slovníků Collins, Chambers a Penguin vychází The New Penguin English Dictionary jako ta nejlepší volba" Literární příloha The Times Toto druhé vydání nejrozsáhlejšího anglického výkladového slovníku nakladatelského domu Penguin dokonale a do hloubky pokrává všechny aspekty současného anglického jazyka. Jde o aktualizované vydání, které připravili přední angličtí lexikografové. Srozumitelné a detailní definice, se zvláštním důrazem na složitější významy a použití Najdeme zde nejen slova z tzv. "standard English", ale i technické a vědecké výrazy, slang a tvary z historické angličtiny. Stovky nových slov, žargon a módníslova reflektující nejnovější přírůstky do slovní zásoby, např. barista, cyberstalking, foodmiles, proximity talks, SMS aj. Gramatické vazby, příklady správného užití, výslovnost a interpunkce Příklady užití slov také z děl slavných spisovatelů, od Shakespeara po Jane Austenovou a od P. G. Wodehouse až po Salmana Rushdieho Příspěvky od významných britských odborníků, např. Richarda Dawkinse o evoluci, Geofreyho Robertsona o svobodě, Heleny Kennedyové o lidských právech a Vernona Bogdanora o devoluci.

Professor Richard Dawkins has teamed up with renowned illustrator Dave McKean to take you on an amazing journey from atoms to animals, pollination to paranoia, the big bang to the bigger picture. See the wonder of science come alive in this beautifully illustrated guide to the greatest questions on earth - and some of the answers to them.

THE ANCESTOR'S TALE is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we and they converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join us at about 6 million years in the past, gorillas at 7 million years, orang utans at 14 million years, as we stride on together, a growing band. The journey provides the setting for a collection of some 40 tales. Each explores an aspect of evolutionary biology through the stories of characters met along the way or glimpsed from afar - the Elephant Bird's Tale, the Marsupial Mole's Tale, the Lungfish's Tale. Together they give a deep understanding of the processes that have shaped life on Earth: convergent evolution, the isolation of populations, continental drift, the great extinctions. The tales are interspersed with prologues detailing the journey, route maps showing joining lineages, and life-like reconstructions of our common ancestors. THE ANCESTOR'S TALE represents a pilgrimage on an unimaginable scale: our goal is four billion years away, and the number of pilgrims joining us grows vast - ultimately encompassing all living creatures. At the end of the journey lies something remarkable in its simplicity and transformative power: the first, humble, replicating molecules.

Richard Dawkins explores the wonder of flight. A book for ages 8-80 about flying - from the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but magnificent bird Argentavis magnificens, to the British Airways pilots of today.

Collects nature- and science-based essays by such authors as Anne Fadiman, Brian Hayes, Cullen Murphy, and Gary Taubes.

This chapter from "River Out of Eden" argues that the only purpose of life is the survival of DNA; understand this, and all the inefficiency, unfairness and cruelty in the world makes sense.

Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of "Intelligent Design" in his latest New York Times bestseller, The Greatest Show on Earth. "Intelligent Design" is being taught in our schools; educators are being asked to "teach the controversy" behind evolutionary theory. There is no controversy. Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence—from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics—to make the airtight case that "we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection." His unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument, exposing the absurdities of the creationist position, into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master’s vision of life, in all its splendor.

Science need not be dull and bogged down by jargon, as Richard Dawkins proves in this entertaining look at evolution. The themes he takes up are the concepts of altruistic and selfish behaviour; the genetical definition of selfish interest; the evolution of aggressive behaviour; kinshiptheory; sex ratio theory; reciprocal altruism; deceit; and the natural selection of sex differences. 'Should be read, can be read by almost anyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution.' W.D. Hamilton, Science

One of the world's bestselling science communicators, Dawkins gives readers an opportunity to rethink the big questions. In 12 fiercely funny, mind-expanding chapters, he explains how the natural world arose without a designer--the improbability and beauty of the "bottom-up programming" that engineers an embryo or a flock of starlings--and challenges head-on some of the most basic assumptions made by the world's religions