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Richard Dawkins

Himera credinţei în Dumnezeu .

Editura: Curtea Veche

Anul aparitiei: 2007

„Imaginaţi-vă o lume lipsită de religie. Fără atentate sinucigaşe, fără 11 septembrie sau 7 iulie, fără cruciade şi vânători de vrăjitoare, comploturi, războaie şi separatişti, fără războaie israeliano-palestiniene, masacre între sârbi, croaţi şi musulmani, persecuţii ale evreilor sau atacuri nord-irlandeze. Fără acei tele-evanghelişti cu costume strălucitoare şi coafuri bufante, care le spun oamenilor despre banii lor că «Dumnezeu vrea să daţi, până la suferinţă». Fără talibani care să arunce în aer statui antice, fără execuţii publice ale celor care proferează blasfemii şi fără femei biciuite pentru crima de a-şi fi arătat faţa… O lume tolerantă şi raţională, care să ia în calcul şi posibilitatea că Dumnezeu nu există — sub nicio formă şi pentru nicio religie“, scrie Richard Dawkins. Iată un subiect de interes pentru fiecare muritor de pe planetă. În plus, raţionamentele dezvoltate de autor plecând de la premise ştiinţifice (susţinute de specializarea acestuia în biologie evoluţionistă şi de experienţa acumulată în calitate de profesor la Universitatea Oxford) au făcut din această carte, ...

Richard Dawkins

UN RAU PORNIT DIN EDEN

Editura: Humanitas

Richard Dawkins

CEASORNICARUL ORB

Editura: Humanitas

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Cartea pe care ar fi scris-o Darwin daca ar fi trait in zilele noastre Richard Dawkins a adus evolutia la zi. ( The Times ) Dupa 150 de ani, teoria evolutiei prin selectie naturala continua sa lase iluzia ca e usor de inteles - si in genere e gresit inteleasa, ba chiar e inca respinsa de un numar surprinzator de mare de oameni, in ciuda dovezilor zdrobitoare in favoarea ei care s-au adunat de la Darwin incoace. In Ceasornicarul orb Richard Dawkins isi asuma sarcina de a explica in detaliu pentru publicul larg tot ce pare la prima vedere imposibil de explicat pe cale naturala: aparitia primelor forme de viata pe Pamant, dezvoltarea organelor complexe cum sunt ochii sau aripile, asa-zisele verigi lipsa" despre care vorbesc paleontologii, precum si numeroase aspecte stranii ale lumii vii. Cheia explicatiilor lui Dawkins e intelegerea corecta a caracterului treptat, pas cu pas, al evolutiei si a raportului dintre intamplare (mutatia genetica) si determinism (selectia naturala). Ceasornicarul orb e o demonstratie de forta intelectuala care isi are locul, alaturi de Originea speciilor, intre marile carti de biologie.

Richard Dawkins

Gena egoista

Editura: tehnica

Anul aparitiei: 2006

Richard Dawkins este unul dintre cei mai sclipitori reprezentanti ai noii generatii de biologi, având un discurs fermecator si o pasta scriitoriceasca de exceptie. Cartea de fata este una fascinanta, unica în felul ei, emanând o viziune unitara despre adevarurile mai vechi ale darwinismului, dar si noile adevaruri ale unei alte idei mari, aceea a unei particule ereditare, autoreproducatoare si autosuficiente. Aceasta carte nu urmareste sa fie o pledoarie generala în favoarea darwinismului, ci exploreaza consecintele teoriei evolutioniste pentru o anumita directie tematica. Anul acesta cartea împlineste 30 ani de la prima sa aparitie !

Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett

The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

Editura: Oxford University Press, USA

Anul aparitiei: 1999

In this influential and controversial book that has become a classic in popular science writing, Dawkins furthers his fascinating look at the evolution of life and natural selection.

Richard Dawkins

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Editura: Oxford University Press, USA

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Boasting almost one hundred articles and book excerpts, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a breathtaking celebration of the finest writing by scientists--the best such collection in print--packed with scintillating essays on everything from "The Discovery of Lucy" to "The Terror and Vastness of the Universe." Edited by best-selling author and renowned scientist Richard Dawkins, this sterling collection brings together exhilarating pieces by a who's who of scientists and science writers, including Stephen Pinker, Stephen Jay Gould, Martin Gardner, Albert Einstein, Julian Huxley, and many dozens more. Readers will find excerpts from bestsellers such as Douglas R. Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach, Francis Crick's Life Itself, Loren Eiseley's The Immense Journey, Daniel Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us. There are classic essays ranging from J.B.S. Haldane's "On Being the Right Size" and Garrett Hardin's "The Tragedy of the Commons" to Alan Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" and Albert Einstein's famed New York Times article on "Relativity." And readers will also discover lesser-known but engaging pieces such as Lewis ...

Richard Dawkins

The Selfish Gene

Editura: Oxford University Press

Anul aparitiei: 2006

In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. This anniversary edition retains all original material, including the two enlightening chapters in the second edition, and a new Introduction by Dawkins.

Richard Dawkins

Blind Watchmaker

Editura: W. W. Norton & Company

Anul aparitiei: 1996

The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who made one of the most famous creationist arguments: Just as a watch is too complicated and too functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with their far greater complexity, be purposefully designed. It was Charles Darwin's brilliant discovery that put the lie to these arguments. But only Richard Dawkins could have written this eloquent riposte to the creationists. Natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially nonrandom process that Darwin discovered - has no purpose in mind. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. Acclaimed as perhaps the most influential work on evolution written in this century, The Blind Watchmaker offers an engaging and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.

Richard Dawkins

Climbing Mount Improbable Climbing Mount Improbable

Editura: W. W. Norton & Company

Anul aparitiei: 1997

In a brilliant book that celebrates improbability, the acclaimed author of "The Selfish Gene" and "The Blind Watchmaker" builds a carefully reasoned and lovingly illustrated argument for evolutionary adaptation as the mechanism for life on Earth. "Without question, Richard Dawkins is the most brilliant and compelling propagandist of Darwin today".--"Wired". Photos and drawings.

Richard Dawkins

River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Editura: Basic Books

Anul aparitiei: 1996

How did the replication bomb we call "life" begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the New York Times described his style as "the sort of science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius"), Richard Dawkins confronts this ancient mystery.

Richard Dawkins

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Editura: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Renowned biologist and thinker Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments to his own provocative views, and loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Richard Dawkins

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Editura: Mariner Books

Anul aparitiei: 2000

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended, and so diminish beauty? Far from it, says the author, an acclaimed scientist. He says Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to the poetry of modern cosmology, in this tribute to scientific exploration.

Richard Dawkins

A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

Editura: Mariner Books

Anul aparitiei: 2004

The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins. Richard Dawkins's essays are an enthusiastic testament to the power of rigorous, scientific examination, and they span many different corners of his personal and professional life. He revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote about in his groundbreaking work The Selfish Gene. He makes moving tributes to friends and colleagues, including a eulogy for novelist Douglas Adams; he shares correspondence with the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould; and he visits with the famed paleoanthropologists Richard and Maeve Leakey at their African wildlife preserve. He concludes the essays with a vivid note to his ten-year-old daughter, reminding her to remain curious, to ask questions, and to live the examined life.

Richard Dawkins

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Editura: Mariner Books

Anul aparitiei: 2005

In works such as "The Selfish Gene" and "Unweaving the Rainbow," the renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has introduced the wonders of modern biology. Now this gifted science popularizer offers a masterwork: a wholly original tour backward through evolution.

Richard Dawkins

The God Delusion

Editura: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Anul aparitiei: 2006

Discovery" magazine has recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwins Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. In his "New York Times" bestseller, Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.

Richard Dawkins

The God Delusion

Editura: Mariner Books

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Discovery" magazine has recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwins Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. In his "New York Times" bestseller, Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.

Richard Dawkins

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Editura: Free Press

Anul aparitiei: 2009

In a brilliant follow-up to his blockbuster "The God Delusion," world-renowned evolutionary biologist and author Dawkins lays out the evidence for evolution.

Richard Dawkins

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Editura: Simon & Schuster Audio

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Richard Dawkins

The God Delusion

Editura: Tantor Media

Anul aparitiei: 2007

Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the world (along with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes. He critiques God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. In so doing, he makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just irrational, but potentially deadly. Dawkins has fashioned an impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity of "intelligent design," or agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East-or Middle America.

Richard Dawkins

Magia realităţii-De unde ştim care este de fapt adevărul

Editura: Humanitas

Anul aparitiei: 2012

La o primă vedere, multe dintre fenomenele naturii par să ţină de magie, iar culturile arhaice au creat mituri pentru a le explica. Egiptenii antici credeau că se face noapte pentru că zeiţa Nut înghite Soarele. Grecii puneau iarna pe seama dispariţiei Persefonei în lumea subterană a lui Hades. Pentru vikingi, curcubeul era puntea care îi lega pe zei de Pământ. Richard Dawkins crede însă că adevărata magie este magia ştiinţei, care ajunge să explice aceste fenomene. Fiecare capitol al cărţii lămureşte câte o problemă: evoluţia şi diversitatea lumii vii, structura materiei, ciclurile diurn şi sezonier, alcătuirea şi istoria Soarelui, curcubeul, apariţia universului, posibilitatea existenţei vieţii pe alte planete, cutremurele, rolul jucat de probabilităţi în lumea noastră. Însoţită de desenele spectaculoase ale lui Dave McKean, Magia realităţii dezvăluie prin povestiri pasionante frumuseţea poetică a ştiinţei. „În această carte vreau să vă arăt că, din perspectiva ştiinţei, lumea reală are propria sa magie, pe care o numesc poetică: o frumuseţe copleşitoare, a cărei magie sporeşte tocmai pentru că e reală, iar ...