An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

Author: Dawkins, RichardBrand: Brand: EccoEdition: First American EditionFeatures: Used Book in Good ConditionBinding: HardcoverNumber Of Pages: 320Release Date: 24-09-2013Part Number: black & white plates, colour platesDetails: New York Times bestselling author and renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins delivers an intimate look into his own childhood and intellectual development, illuminating his path to becoming one of the foremost thinkers in modern science today “A memoir that is funny and modest, absorbing and playful. Dawkins has written a marvelous love letter to science . . . and for this, the book will touch scientists and science-loving persons . . . Enchanting.” —NPR Richard Dawkins’s first book, The Selfish Gene, was an immediate sensation and dramatically shifted the study of biology by offering a gene-centered view of evolution. Published in 1976, the book transformed the way we think about genes and evolution and has sold more than a million