num_pages: 464
description: At a time when science can seem complex and remote it has a greater impact on our lives and to the future of our planet than ever before. It really matters that its discoveries and truths should be clearly and widely communicated. That its enemies from the malicious to the muddled the self-deluding to the self-interested be challenged and exposed. That science should be brought out of the laboratory taken into the corridors of power and defended in the maelstrom of popular culture. No one does this better than Richard Dawkins. In bringing together his forewords afterwords and introductions to works by some of the leading thinkers of our ageCarl Sagan Lawrence Krauss Jacob Bronowski Lewis Wolpertand a selection of his reviews both admiring and critical of a wide range of scientific and other works Books do Furnish a Life celebrates the writers who communicate the ideas of science and the natural world in both fiction and non-fiction. It celebrates the courage of those who write about their experiences of escaping religion and embracing rationality of protecting the truths of science and analytical rigour against charlatanry and obfuscation.
language: English
title: Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
publisher: Bantam Press