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Free Press, September 2009
eBook, 480 pages
ISBN-10: 1416597786
ISBN-13: 9781416597780
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- CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
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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.
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“Brilliant, detailed, anecdotal and immensely readable . . . Poignant, revealing. Dawkins is canny, funny, and beguiling . . . [He lays] out evidence with such fascinating detail that the book is both scientifically exciting and completely convincing. It's badly needed in this era when the science of evolution is being threatened in our schools.”
-- San Francisco Chronicle
“Unambiguous, beautifully argued, with prose like quicksilver. Entertaining. Dawkins emerges like a prize-fighter, knocking out of the ring all objections.”
-- Nature
"This is a magnificent book of wonderstanding: Richard Dawkins combines an artist's wonder at the virtuosity of nature with a scientist's understanding of how it comes to be.''
-- Matt Ridley, author of Nature via Nurture
"'There is grandeur in this view of life,' said Darwin, speaking of evolution. There is no one better qualified to convey this grandeur than his worthy successor, Richard Dawkins, who writes with passion, clarity, and wit. This may be his best book yet."
-- V. S. Ramachandran
"To call this book a defense of evolution utterly misses the point: The Greatest Show on Earth is a celebration of one of the best ideas humans have ever produced. It is hard not to marvel at Richard Dawkins's luminous telling of the story of evolution and the way that it has shaped our world. In reading Dawkins, one is left awed at the beauty of the theory and humbled by the power of science to understand some of the greatest mysteries of life."
-- Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish
"Up until now, Richard Dawkins has said everything interesting that there is to say about evolution -- with one exception. In The Greatest Show on Earth, he fills this gap, brilliantly describing the multifarious and massive evidence for evolution -- evidence that gives the lie to the notion that evolution is 'only a theory.' This important and timely book is a must-read for Darwin Year."
-- Jerry Coyne, author of Why Evolution Is True
"This is the book Richard Dawkins needed to write and many need to read -- a comprehensive account of evolution that faces the difficulties and questions his critics have raised. In it he draws on his great ability to write about science in a way that is clear, absorbing, and vivid."
-- Lord Harries of Pentregarth (formerly Bishop Richard Harries)
"With characteristic flair and passion, Dawkins has put on a stunning exhibition of the evidence for evolution. In his own words, 'Evolution is a fact...and no unbiased reader will close the book doubting it.'"
-- Dr. Alice Roberts, biological anthropologist, author, and broadcaster
"'...he is an awesome thinker, a superb writer whose explanatory skills I envy, who dismisses his opponents with the thoroughness of a top silk'....A beautifully crafted and intelligible rebuttal of creationism and intelligent design."
-- The Times
"Dawkins gathers up the weight of evidence into a huge lump and hurls it at us from the highest heights his rhetoric can scale...his grandness of vision still dazzles."
-- The Sunday Telegraph
“A lucid, thorough and often exciting survey of evolution . . . informed in nearly every paragraph by Mr. Dawkins’s irrepressible enthusiasm.”
-- Sarah Lyall, The New York Times
“[Dawkins] looses a shock-and-awe flurry of evidentiary darts . . . a sweeping, wryly joyous case for rationality, empiricism, and no God on this green Earth.”
-- The Atlantic
“Arguably the greatest living populariser of evolution.”
-- New Scientist
“Dawkins, one of the ablest of the many scientists trying to dispel the belief that man, rather than descending from other animals, was created in his current form by some divinity fills a gap in his oeuvre by setting out the evidence that the ‘theory’ of evolution is a fact--‘as incontrovertible a fact as any in science’. And what a lot of evidence there is.”
-- Economist
“[Dawkins] writes with terrific wit . . . and considerable learning, but what is interesting here is his fire. Without the strictures of academia, it seems, he relishes the opportunity to light into his opponents. Whether anyone will stand up to refute his notions remains to be seen, but for now Dawkins wins on points. A pleasure in the face of so much scientificignorance-biology rendered accessible and relevant to the utmost degree.”
-- Kirkus Reviews
“Filled with fascinating details, his treatise is clear, clever and convincing. Dawkins states that Darwin ‘thumped the Victorian solar plexus and drove out the wind of centuries’ with his book On The Origin of Species. But his own book is a thorough, often poetic, endeavor in keeping creationism from catching its breath.”
-- The New York Post
“No one can match the way Dawkins writes about evolution.”
-- Financial Times
“No one can write about science as well as Dawkins, and again and again one is left breathless with admiration for the skills of the storyteller. Even the technical material becomes riveting in his hands . . . put your abilities to good use and read Richard Dawkins’s wonderful new book.”
-- The Globe and Mail
“[Dawkins’s] writing radiates an intense sense of fascination. He is a great explainer, taking complex biological processes and making them accessible.”
-- The Independent
"The year could not be complete without the erudite and gentle bark of Darwin's ‘Rottweiler’. This mount is not improbable; it is a concrete andwell-established edifice,light, picturesque and delightful, pitched at just the right level to engage the largest possible audience. Essential reading." SCOPE
Rice University, October 4, 2011
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Yeovil Express, September 19, 2011
...Author Richard Dawkins coming to town The visit has been organised by Waterstone’s and staff are looking forward to welcoming Richard – who has had great success with The Selfish Gene ...
Yeovil Express, September 19, 2011
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This is the West Country, September 16, 2011
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Yeovil Express, September 11, 2011
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Yeovil Express, August 30, 2011
...BEST-SELLING author Richard Dawkins will be at the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil on Wednesday, September 21, to talk about his new book The Magic of Reality. The visit has been organised by Waterstone ...
The Independent, August 17, 2010
...the award-winning biographer will reveal private insights into both her work and the couple's extraordinary life together. Richard Dawkins, the scientist, is set to renew his assault on the views of creationists and believers in "intelligent ...
New West, August 2, 2010
...Hermaphrodite, creating the world unbeknownst to itself, much as natural selection ?creates? by ?non-deliberate, unplanned means,? as Richard Dawkins wrote in The Greatest Show on Earth. NW: Book 2 of the novel is titled ?Studies in ...
Prevention, December 20, 2009
...per se. I may leave that job to others, better qualified to do it- the likes of Richard Dawkins , Daniel Dennett , and Michael Shermer . My interest is purely pragmatic. Evolution is at the foundation of physiology, and is thus the ...
EyeWeekly.com, December 16, 2009
...anxiety is made deeply funny thanks to Lethem’s usual skill with the human condition. KATE CARRAWAY The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins (Simon & Schuster, 480 pages, $30) There have been other books ...
Digital Journal, December 11, 2009
...Religionists often claim that there is no evidence for Darwin's theory of evolution. World-famous biologist and author Richard Dawkins takes them on and shows how wrong this claim is. Richard Dawkins is a biologist. I am a computer ...
Individual.com, November 8, 2009
...produce instead a thorough explanation of how humans and other life forms are linked through evolution. British biologist Richard Dawkins says he was compelled to write "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution" because Charles ...
New Zealand Herald, November 6, 2009
...By Andrew Stone Ri Richard Dawkins might be making progress. The English scientist and best-selling author has for years been a fearless critic of organised religion and makes no bones about his feelings about believers ...
TVO.org, November 4, 2009
...His controversial bestseller The God Delusion angered some, inspired others. Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. Now the world's most famous atheist has come out with a new book that sets out to make the open-and-shut case for evolution. ...
MusicOMH, November 3, 2009
...a white-haired Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic in their revival of Inherit the Wind and celebrated by Richard Dawkins in print in his latest book, The Greatest Show on Earth. The Rambert Company is even staging a dancers’ response to Darwin in ...
The Coloradoan, October 31, 2009
...see in our short life spans, is still a recognizable fact shown by many intelligent writers, such as Richard Dawkins, whose most recent book, 'The Greatest Show on Earth,' clearly demonstrates the fact of evolution, even with examples we can ...
Discover Magazine, October 29, 2009
...because it defended us from some ongoing misrepresentations. In it, Josh also raised an important point: Why is Richard Dawkins, promoting his new evolution book, regularly being asked about his atheism, and why he is ?strident,? ...
New York Times, October 23, 2009
...The review by Nicholas Wade, a science reporter for The Times, of Richard Dawkins’s “Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution” (Oct. 11) drew an unusually large number of . And an unusually large number of those came from ...
MSNBC Newsweek, September 26, 2009
...In his controversial bestseller The God Delusion, evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins attacked religious belief. He spoke with me about his new work, The Greatest Show on Earth, and his inimitable style. Excerpts: Why were you ...
Bristol Evening Post, September 26, 2009
...A lecture by the evolutionist Richard Dawkins in Bristol has sold out in record time. All 375 tickets for the talk, due to take place at Expore@Bristol on November 3, sold out in two days. That ...
Seed Magazine, September 24, 2009
...Myers on the power of storytelling in communicating evolution?s biological evidence. Discuss this article at ScienceBlogs » Richard Dawkins is ready, apparently, to reach out. After sparking global controversy with his take-no-prisoners ...
Bristol Evening Post, September 24, 2009
...Outspoken evolutionist Richard Dawkins is coming to Bristol to speak on his favourite subject. Dawkins will be promoting his latest book The Greatest Show on Earth, by making a presentation at the Bristol ...
The Hindu, September 23, 2009
...Shazia Omar, Rs. 250 An energetic debut novel that heralds a new voice in Bangladeshi fiction. Non-fiction The Greatest Show on Earth: Richard Dawkins, Rs. 506.15 Richard Dawkins takes on creationists, including followers of ?Intelligent ...
Christian News Wire, September 22, 2009
...MEDIA ADVISORY, Sept. 22 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution is the title of atheist Richard Dawkin's latest book, and it's due to be released in the United States September 22 ...
Politics.co.uk, September 22, 2009
...faith schools constitute an act of child abuse because of the way they rid children of freedom, Professor Richard Dawkins has said. Speaking at a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Bournemouth, the infamous atheist and ...
Guardian Unlimited, September 20, 2009
...Alok Jha and guests discuss creationism, Richard Dawkins' latest book and the new Darwin biopic Creation Caspar Melville, editor of the New Humanist magazine, is our studio guest. We look at some of the creationist topics in ...
Telegraph, September 19, 2009
...Steve Jones hails Richard Dawkins's new book, which brings together his thinking on Darwin To wrestle with a blancmange is, in my experience, a mistake. Pink, sickly and smug, the sugary pudding happily ...
Times Online, September 18, 2009
...This video shows James Harding, editor of The Times, in conversation with the atheist Richard Dawkins at the Institute of Education. Mark Henderson has blogged it at Science Central. Mark writes: 'The event was held to celebrate Professor ...
Global Custodian, September 18, 2009
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Irish Times, September 17, 2009
...RICHARD DAWKINS was preaching to the converted in Dublin yesterday evening. That is apart from one disgruntled audience member who walked out after shouting at the author and calling him a ...
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Irish Times, September 16, 2009
...but it is also an accessible, colourful and beautifully detailed look at many scientific wonders, writes SHANE HEGARTY RICHARD Dawkins is a little distracted. Hes been delayed by an earlier appointment, is a little tight for time and his new ...
Global Custodian, September 15, 2009
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Media Newswire, September 10, 2009
...- Best-selling author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins will give a public seminar on Oct. 16 at the University of Virginia based on his new book, 'The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution.' (Media-Newswire.com ...
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New Scientist, September 9, 2009
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Global Custodian, September 8, 2009
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Global Custodian, September 8, 2009
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Global Custodian, September 8, 2009
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Londonist, September 4, 2009
...Biologist, presenter, atheist love/hate figure and Dr-Who-assistant-marrying author Richard Dawkins has a new book out. Naturally, that means opportunities to see the controversial thinker talk about his latest work. The Greatest Show on ...
Times Online, August 28, 2009
...the Lord for creationists. Without their blinkered belief in the biblical account of how life came to be, Richard Dawkins would never have felt the need to give us The Greatest Show on Earth. And what a fine, lucid and convincing exhibition ...
3 News, August 25, 2009
...Richard Dawkins (Reuters) Richard Dawkins, the author of controversial bestseller The God Delusion, says that people who reject the theory of evolution are as misguided as those who deny the Holocaust ...
Times Online, August 22, 2009
...The author of The God Delusion and The Selfish Gene, whose new book, The Greatest Show on Earth, is serialised in The Times next week, has topped bestseller lists all over the world but never in a predominantly Muslim country. None of ...
Times Online, August 22, 2009
...The author of The God Delusion and The Selfish Gene, whose new book, The Greatest Show on Earth, is serialised in The Times next week, has topped bestseller lists all over the world but never in a predominantly Muslim country. None of ...
Times Online, August 21, 2009
...The author of The God Delusion and The Selfish Gene, whose new book, The Greatest Show on Earth, is serialised in The Times next week, has topped bestseller lists all over the world but never in a predominantly Muslim country. None of ...
Sydney Morning Herald, August 14, 2009
...This spring, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins - most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, The God Delusion - returns to writing about science. Dawkins's new book, The Greatest Show on Earth, ...
Los Angeles Times, August 11, 2009
...Discuss Article This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, 'The God Delusion' -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new book, 'The Greatest ...
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Examiner.com, May 28, 2009
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Richard Dawkins's Books
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The Magic of RealityMagic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific method. The...Read More
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