{"product_id":"science-in-the-soul-selected-writings-of-a-passionate-rationalist-paperback","title":"Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Dawkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For decades, Richard Dawkins has been a brilliant scientific communicator, consistently illuminating the wonders of nature and attacking faulty logic. \u003ci\u003eScience in the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e brings together forty-two essays, polemics, and paeans--all written with Dawkins's characteristic erudition, remorseless wit, and unjaded awe of the natural world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Though it spans three decades, this book couldn't be more timely or more urgent. Elected officials have opened the floodgates to prejudices that have for half a century been unacceptable or at least undercover. In a passionate introduction, Dawkins calls on us to insist that reason take center stage and that gut feelings, even when they \u003ci\u003edon't\u003c\/i\u003e represent the stirred dark waters of xenophobia, misogyny, or other blind prejudice, should stay out of the voting booth. And in the essays themselves, newly annotated by the author, he investigates a number of issues, including the importance of empirical evidence, and decries bad science, religion in the schools, and climate-change deniers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dawkins has equal ardor for \"the sacred truth of nature\" and renders here with typical virtuosity the glories and complexities of the natural world. Woven into an exploration of the vastness of geological time, for instance, is the peculiar history of the giant tortoises and the sea turtles--whose journeys between water and land tell us a deeper story about evolution. At this moment, when so many highly placed people still question the fact of evolution, Dawkins asks what Darwin would make of his own legacy--\"a mixture of exhilaration and exasperation\"--and celebrates science as possessing many of religion's virtues--\"explanation, consolation, and uplift\"--without its detriments of superstition and prejudice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a world grown irrational and hostile to facts, \u003ci\u003eScience in the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential collection by an indispensable author. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eScience in the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Compelling . . . rendered in gloriously spiky and opinionated prose . . .  Dawkins is] one of the great science popularizers of the last half-century.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Dawkins is a ferocious polemicist, a defender of reason and enemy of superstition.\"\u003cb\u003e--John Horgan, \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Dawkins\u003c\/b\u003e is a fellow of the Royal Society and was the inaugural holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the acclaimed author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Selfish Gene, The God Delusion, The Magic of Reality, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, The Ancestor's Tale, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Greatest Show on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Royal Society of Literature Award, the Michael Faraday Prize of the Royal Society, the Kistler Prize, the Shakespeare Prize, the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, the Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year Award, and the International Cosmos Prize of Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 12, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755460854048,"sku":"9780399592263","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3fb40b026cb03dd75d01b484181d20da.webp?v=1780059409","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/science-in-the-soul-selected-writings-of-a-passionate-rationalist-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}