The Magic of Reality

It’s the clearest and most beautifully written introduction to science I’ve ever read. Again and again I found myself saying “Oh! So that’s how genes work!” (or stars, or tectonic plates, or all the other things he explains). Explanations I thought I knew were clarified; things I never understood were made clear for the first time – Philip PullmanI wanted to write this book but I wasn’t clever enough. Now I’ve read it, I am – Ricky GervaisThe Magic of Reality provides a beautiful, accessible and wide ranging volume that addresses the questions that all of us have about the universe…written with the masterful and eloquently literate style of perhaps the best popular expositor of science, Richard Dawkins, and delightfully illustrated by Dave McKean. What more could anyone ask for? – Lawrence Krauss, author of Quantum Man, and A Universe from NothingFrom the first sentence it reads with the force and fluency of a classic … a luminous, authoritative prose that transcends age differences * The Times *A charming and free-ranging history of science * The Sunday Times *Stunning in appearance … the book is a triumph * New Scientist *Prodigiously illustrated and beautifully designed… I cannot think of a better, or simpler, introduction to science * Guardian *This book may be exactly what’s needed to increase science literacy for readers of all ages * Publishers Weekly *The text is persuasive whatever one’s age … the chapter on rainbows has the clearest explanation of how they appear that I’ve ever seen * Financial Times *This book is primarily aimed at teenagers, but plenty of adults will get a kick out of it too…McKean’s drawings bring the text to life brilliantly … Dawkins writes convincingly about everything from chemistry to statistics * Independent on Sunday *

Richard Dawkins is author of The Selfish Gene, voted The Royal Society’s Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time, and also the bestsellers The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor’s Tale, The God Delusion, and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder and Brief Candle in the Dark. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford and both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world’s top thinker in Prospect magazine’s poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.

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