Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder This spellbinding book came later in my life, and it was the first book which tied poetry and science together in a way that I had not seen […]
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Climbing Mount Improbable
This book wrapped it all up for me, in terms of evolution. It shows with crystal clarity how nature does it one step at a time. If evolution is a mountain, this book explains how […]
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This ‘multi-million copies sold’ book is another landmark book. River Out of Eden introduces us to thinking like a gene, and The Selfish Gene shows us in incredible detail, how the genes do it all. […]
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This stunning book reveals how nature produces its complex designs and its complex beahviours through simple time and chance. What appears to us as design, is cleverly revealed for its simplicity, with incredible accounts, and […]
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A Darwinian View of Life This book was the first Richard Dawkins book which I read. It was the catalyst, to read three more of his books, which led me to leaving the Prison Service […]
Continue readingA Brief History of Time
From the big bang to black holes. This book needs no introduction. It was the first non-fiction book which I ever read in 1988. Everything up until that point was stories, and this book told […]
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