The Magic of Reality
How We Know What's Really True
Ranked #14 in Atheism, Ranked #36 in Reasoning — see more rankings.
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... more
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Bill Gates CEO/MicrosoftDawkins, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford, has a gift for making science enjoyable. This book is as accessible as the TV series Cosmos is for younger audiences—and as relevant for older audiences. It’s an engaging, well-illustrated science textbook offering compelling answers to big questions, like “how did the universe form?” and “what causes earthquakes?” It’s also a plea for readers of all ages to approach mysteries with rigor and curiosity. Dawkins’s antagonistic (and, to me, overzealous) view of religion has earned him a lot of angry critics, but I consider him to be one of the great... (Source)
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Rankings by Category
The Magic of Reality is ranked in the following categories:
- #78 in Biology
- #76 in Cosmology
- #63 in Critical Thinking
- #43 in Evolution
- #49 in Life Sciences
- #55 in Popular Science
- #64 in Science
- #83 in Scientific
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