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Author:

Dawkins, Richard, 1941- author.

Title:

Brief candle in the dark : my life in science / Richard Dawkins.

Edition:

First HarperLuxe edition.

Publisher:

Harperluxean imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

℗♭2015

Description:

639 pages (large print), 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Subject:

Dawkins, Richard, 1941---1941-
Biologists --1941--- Biography. -- Biography.
Ethologists -- Biography. -- Biography.
Large type books.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Flashback at a feast -- Oh, the things that are done by a don -- Lore of the jungle -- Go to the wasp, thou sluggard: evolutionary economics -- The delegate's tale -- Christmas lectures -- Islands of the blest -- Whoso findeth a publisher findeth a good thing -- Television -- Debates and encounters -- Simonyi professor -- Unweaving the threads from a scientist's loom -- The Taxicab Theory of evolution -- Extending the phenotype -- Action at a distance -- Rediscovering the organism: passengers and stowaways -- Aftermaths to The extended phenotype -- Constraints on perfection -- The Darwinian engineer in the classroom -- "The genetic book of the dead" and the species as "averaging computer" -- Evolution in pixels -- The evolution of evolvability -- Kaleidoscopic embryos -- Arthromorphs -- The cooperative gene -- Universal Darwinism -- Memes -- Chinese junk and Chinese whispers -- Models of the world -- The argument from personal incredulity -- The God delusion -- Full circle.

Summary:

"Dawkins shares with us his infectious sense of wonder at the natural world, his enjoyment of the absurdities of human interaction, and his bracing awareness of life's brevity: all of which have made a deep imprint on our culture"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0062416995
9780062416995

OCLC:

(OCoLC)899226612

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

EZPE755 -- Le Mars Public Library (Le Mars)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)

CDPC522 -- Solon Public Library (Solon)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)