A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Essays by Richard Dawkins
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.
Format: Paperback | 320 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.8 x 1.9 | 258g
Publication Date: 01 Apr 2004
Publisher: Orion Books
Imprint: Phoenix
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN10: 0753817500
ISBN13: 9780753817506
Condition: Like New
A vintage book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. Very minimal wear and tear.