Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of the Royal Society and was the inaugural holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the acclaimed author of many books including The Selfish Gene, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, The Ancestor's Tale, The God Delusion, and The Greatest Show on Earth. Visit him at RichardDawkins.net.
Dave McKean has illustrated and designed many award-winning comics and books as well as CD covers, a Broadway musical, and creatures for the Harry Potter films.
"Exhilarating. 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. My favourite adjective of praise has
always been "clear," and this book has clarity all the way
through."
--Philip Pullman, author of The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel
Christ and the His Dark Materials trilogy
"I am often asked to recommend good books on science for young
people. From now on, I will not have to hesitate. The Magic of
Reality provides a beautiful, accessible and wide ranging volume
that addresses the questions that all of us have about the
universe, separating often too-little known facts from
too-frequently believed fictions. For this reason it should be a
powerful resource for people of all ages, written with the
masterful and eloquently literate style of perhaps the best popular
expositor of science, Richard Dawkins, and delightfully illustrated
by Dave McKean. What more could anyone ask for?"
--Lawrence Krauss is Foundation Professor and Director of the
Origins Project at Arizona State University and the author most
recently of Quantum Man, and A Universe from Nothing
"I wanted to write this book but I wasn't clever enough. Now I've
read it, I am"
--Ricky Gervais
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