River out of Eden
A Darwinian View of Life
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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 "[T]he sort of science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius"), Richard Dawkins confronts this ancient mystery.
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The wonder of flight. The science of evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces?
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Thank God for Richard Dawkins!
- De aaron en 12-19-21
De: Richard Dawkins
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The Greatest Show on Earth
- The Evidence for Evolution
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Duración: 14 h y 36 m
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The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument". 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Back to His Strong Suit
- De Dalton en 09-23-09
De: Richard Dawkins
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Outgrowing God
- A Beginner's Guide
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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In 12 fiercely funny, mind-expanding chapters, Dawkins explains how the natural world arose without a designer - the improbability and beauty of the "bottom-up programming" that engineers an embryo or a flock of starlings - and challenges head-on some of the most basic assumptions made by the world’s religions: Do you believe in God? Which one? Is the Bible a "Good Book"? Is adhering to a religion necessary, or even likely, to make people good to one another? Outgrowing God is a concise, provocative guide to thinking for yourself.
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3 out of 5 stars
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No new ground is covered.
- De God(less) en 11-05-19
De: Richard Dawkins
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The Ancestor's Tale
- A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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In The Ancestor's Tale, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse tour through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial beginnings of life four billion years ago. Throughout the journey, Dawkins spins entertaining, insightful stories and sheds light on topics such as speciation, sexual selection, and extinction. The Ancestor's Tale is at once an essential education in evolutionary theory and riveting in its telling.
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Please do an unabridged version!
- De MovieExpertise en 09-29-16
De: Richard Dawkins
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The Lessons of History
- De: Will, Ariel Durant
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful 11-volume Story of Civilization. In this compact summation of their work, Will and Ariel Durant share the vital and profound lessons of our collective past. Their perspective, gained after a lifetime of thinking and writing about the history of humankind, is an invaluable resource for us today.
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This is a must for every Educated Person
- De BradleyBurr en 10-29-07
De: Will, y otros
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The God Delusion
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Duración: 13 h y 52 m
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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.
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Dangerous Religion
- De Rick Just en 12-21-06
De: Richard Dawkins
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Asian Journals
- India and Japan (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
- De: Joseph Campbell
- Narrado por: Fred Stella
- Duración: 26 h y 56 m
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At the beginning of his career, Joseph Campbell developed a lasting fascination with the cultures of the Far East, and explorations of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy later became recurring motifs in his vast body of work. However, Campbell had to wait until middle age to visit the lands that inspired him so deeply. In 1954, he took a sabbatical from his teaching position and embarked on a year-long voyage through India, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and finally Japan.
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What a journey!
- De Anonymous User en 08-11-18
De: Joseph Campbell
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Science in the Soul
- Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, Gillian Somerscales
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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For decades Richard Dawkins has been the world's most brilliant scientific communicator, consistently illuminating the wonders of nature and attacking faulty logic. Science in the Soul brings together 42 essays, polemics, and paeans - culled from personal papers, newspapers, lectures, and online salons - all written with Dawkins' characteristic erudition, remorseless wit, and unjaded awe of the natural world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great writing; distracting reading
- De Chris DeMuth Jr en 08-09-17
De: Richard Dawkins
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Books Do Furnish a Life
- An Electrifying Celebration of Science Writing
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, Neil deGrasse Tyson, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 47 m
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Books Do Furnish a Life is divided by theme, including celebrating nature, exploring humanity, and interrogating faith. For the first time, it brings together Richard Dawkins's forewords, afterwords and introductions to the work of some of the leading thinkers of our age - Carl Sagan, Lawrence Krauss, Jacob Bronowski, Lewis Wolpert - with a selection of his reviews to provide an electrifying celebration of science writing, both fiction and non-fiction. It is also a sparkling addition to Dawkins's own remarkable canon of work.
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Loved it!
- De Rebekah en 11-03-23
De: Richard Dawkins
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The Four Horsemen
- The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
- De: Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, y otros
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Sam Harris, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 4 m
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In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. The video went viral. Now, the transcript of their conversation is illuminated by new essays from three of the original participants and an introduction by Stephen Fry.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Short
- De Cole Brandon Eckhardt en 03-22-19
De: Christopher Hitchens, y otros
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Breaking the Spell
- Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
- De: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
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For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask why - and how - it has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett charts religion’s evolution from “wild” folk belief to “domesticated” dogma.
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Great Reader Actually Enhances A Great Book!
- De Don Caliente en 07-14-14
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The Selfish Gene
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Duración: 16 h y 12 m
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Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands to rethink their beliefs about life.
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Better than print!
- De J. D. May en 07-31-12
De: Richard Dawkins
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- Evolution and the Meanings of Life
- De: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 27 h y 4 m
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In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet", focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the universe. Dennett vividly describes the theory itself and then extends Darwin's vision with impeccable arguments to their often surprising conclusions, challenging the views of some of the most famous scientists of our day.
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Sky Hooks need not apply.
- De Gary en 12-30-13
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Brief Candle in the Dark
- My Life in Science
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times best-selling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely read books of the 20th century - The God Delusion.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I'm a Dawkins Groupie but...
- De Anne en 10-18-15
De: Richard Dawkins
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
- De: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- Narrado por: Nick Sagan, Ann Druyan, Clinnette Minnis
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
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World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a Roots for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits - self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics - are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A very important read, poor audio performance
- De Tyeen Taylor en 03-17-19
De: Carl Sagan, y otros
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The Portable Atheist
- Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
- De: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrado por: Nicholas Ball
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices past and present that have shaped his side of the current (and raging) God/no-god debate. With Hitchens as your erudite and witty guide, you'll be led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and scientific inquiry, including generous portions of the words of Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This is ABRIDGED
- De David Wolf en 06-05-08
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- Dani Larsen
- 04-19-23
Informative and concise.
I really enjoyed this book. Dawkins always gets straight to the point. The narration could improve. He tends to be a bit monotone. But overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I particularly love that Dawkins puts everything in terms pretty much anyone can understand without underplaying the significance of the science. I recommend this book to anyone, especially those that perhaps doubt either their faith in a deity or doubt the science presented.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-14-20
Great book
I enjoyed it, and the part about the bee dance will forever be engraved in my memory. The nature is fascinating.
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- Cristian Condurache
- 01-10-20
Insightful. Great book and great audiobook!
Found out about the mitochondrial DNA and its possible origins. The river metaphor with different branches for species is an interesting way to look at life and Darwinism.
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- Taylor Britton
- 06-12-20
an interesting glimps into dawkins meandering mind
a fine collection of disjointed evolutionary anecdotes. less cohesive than his other books but still provides insight into his evangelically atheistic mind.
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- Krammitz
- 07-18-23
Informative and easy to understand
This is a great book telling the fascinating story of DNA. A far more informative and entertaining book than any religious fable. The truth about the world is a much more remarkable tale when understood within the details of gradual evolution.
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- Babumoshai
- 08-19-24
Incredible insights!
Loved the book. The only thing with the dual narration was that both narrators had a different reading speed, making to challenging to listen at 2.5x or higher as Richard’s speed was considerably higher.
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- Jeff P
- 09-19-20
Loved it
Dawkins is, to me anyway, the most interesting and lucid science writer today. It's an absolute joy listening to him as he takes his listeners on a tour of his favorite subject, Darwinian evolution. I've read or listened to all of his books, and never tire of listening to him. Two thumbs up!
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- Vaughn E.
- 08-10-21
Insightful Manner of Perspective
Thoroughly enjoyed this piece as it presented several universal notion about the material and energetic history of life and its future potential. almost a philosophical right within itself.
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- Lawrence Widing
- 03-09-22
Another worthy read
As always, the logic and layout are supurb! That he reads it himself adds just the right level of conviction and passion to the book. Well worth listening to. Very informative.
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- TomLindley
- 06-05-23
Tom L.
All his books are great. Dawkins is a super intelligent person, yet he educates his listeners on a level that’s simple to understand, fascinating and entertaining.
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