The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true

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		The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true
		The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true

Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods' bridge to earth. These are magical, extraordinary tales. But there is another kind of magic, and it lies in the exhilaration of discovering the real answers to these questions. It is the magic of reality - science.

Packed with inspiring explanations of space, time and evolution, laced with humour and clever thought experiments, The Magic of Reality explores a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena. What is stuff made of? How old is the universe? What causes tsunamis? Who was the first man, or woman? This is a page-turning, inspirational detective story that not only mines all the sciences for its clues but primes the reader to think like a scientist too.

Richard Dawkins elucidates the wonders of the natural world to all ages with his inimitable clarity and exuberance in a text that will enlighten and inform for generations to come.

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"Dawkins has a gift for making science enjoyable ... [He is] one of the greatest scientific writers/explainers of all time." (Bill Gates)

"A charming and free-ranging history of science." (Sunday Times)

"Prodigiously illustrated and beautifully designed ... I cannot think of a better, or simpler, introduction to science." (The Guardian)

"The text is persuasive whatever one's age ... the chapter on rainbows has the clearest explanation of how they appear that I've ever seen." (The Financial Times)

"It's the clearest and most beautifully written introduction to science I've ever read. Again and again I found myself saying "Oh! So that's how genes work!" (or stars, or tectonic plates, or all the other things he explains). Explanations I thought I knew were clarified; things I never understood were made clear for the first time." (Philip Pullman)

作者简介

Richard Dawkins has written a string of bestselling books, including the phenomenal The God Delusion. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature, and has won numerous awards. He was a professor at Oxford University until 2008 and he remains a fellow of New College.

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有中译本。但如果你能读英文的话，这本书值得一读。
选的几个题目都很有意思，就我专业写的部分没有错误
且文笔优美。

非常有意思，对于提高英语水平很有帮助，很喜欢。看过后追加：这本书会让你感觉到自然原来如此Majical！很同意作者对书题中majic的阐释，他将此解释为‘poetic magic’，it's...wonderful!

100%推荐的科学书！把达尔文的进化论与各国神话联系在一起，娓娓道来，精彩！

精装铜版印刷，其实不是很爱铜版纸。。。书内容很好！

书很小～而且特别黄～这价格不应该是这样啊～

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