THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH: THE EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Richard Dawkins - SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE
Dawkins, Richard (Author) & Darwin, Charles (Subject)
Langue : anglais
Edité par Free Press, New York City, NY, 2009
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1st Printing. Signed. 470 pages. Published in 2009. The author's magisterial account on subject. One of the best books ever written in our time on evolution in particular and science in general. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a regular first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The book remains available in innumerable subsequent printings. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Richard Dawkins' "The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution". An accessible and engaging account on a subject that he victoriously celebrates - rather than argues - as indisputable, irrefutable fact. He makes a compelling case for Charles Darwin as THE most consequential and influential - therefore the greatest - thinker of our time, since at least the late-19th century up to the present. Greater, that is, than the greatest: Einstein, Freud, and Marx, among a few others. Yet Dawkins realized that a disturbingly large percentage of the American and British public - the majority, in fact - did not share his knowledge, much less conviction, about evolution. Admittedly, natural selection - "survival of the fittest" - is an inescapably harsh and cruel reality. But for Dawkins: Fact = The Truth. In the end, nothing but the truth really matters to him as the greatest Darwinian of our time. Resistance and resentment about evolution are deep because it seems to contradict the Bible and refute the existence of God. Well, of course, it does. Notwithstanding intellectual attempts to find their common ground, the respective worldviews are fundamentally non-negotiable and irreconcilable. "There is grandeur in his view of life" (Jonah Lehrer). An absolute "must-have" title for Richard Dawkins collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Richard Dawkins. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great book. This is one of few such title-page signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Almost ALL other copies available online, including those that say "First Edition" are not because they are in multiple subsequent printings (even if their dealers don't say so). Or they have serious flaws. As such, they do not have collectible value. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with magnificent color plates. One of the greatest scientist/thinkers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 1416594787. …
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- Titre
- THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH: THE EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Richard Dawkins - SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE
- Auteur
- Dawkins, Richard (Author) & Darwin, Charles (Subject)
- Éditeur
- Free Press, New York City, NY
- Année de publication
- 2009
- État de l'article
- Fine
- Jaquette
- Fine
- Signé
- Signed by Author
- Reliure
- Hardcover
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 1416594787
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9781416594789
- Édition
- 1st Edition.
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intelligent design by the scruff of the neck and unfolds the evidence for evolution with
characteristic panache. In 2008, a gallup poll showed that 44% of Americans polled believed God had
created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a PewForum poll in the same year, 42% of
those polled believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time. In this
environment, in which Creationism is being taught in schools and educators are being asked to teach the
controversy behind evolution, a delightfully exasperated Dawkins has decided to tell us how it all really
works.
In visceral, crystalline prose, Dawkins sets up each creationist objection to evolution and takes it to task, bit
by bit destroying the idea that the natural world needed an intelligent designer. But this is more than an
argument. This is a thrilling tour into our distant past and into the interstices of all life on earth. Taking us
through the case for evolution step-by-step, Dawkins looks at DNA, selective breeding, anatomical
similarity, molecular family trees, geography, fossils vestiges and imperfections, the stages of human
evolution, and the formula for a strong scientific theory tearing down the Intelligent Design theory in the
process. This will be the last word in the evolution debate, and it will add the legions of God Delusion
readers to the already science-hungry audience who bought the latest Steven Pinker or devoured Bill
Bryson s The History of Nearly Everything.
The God Delusion stimulated, even set the terms of, one of the world s most vigorous public debates: the
question of God s existence. The Greatest Show on Earth will provide readers with the tools to join this
vital debate effectively. And Dawkins infectious passion for the world s beauty will convert all but the most
doctrinaire creationists.
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