Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Richard Dawkins is the former Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University (1995-2008). His many bestsellers include The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion.
Dave McKean has illustrated many award winning books and graphic novels, including Coraline by Neil Gaiman, and the Newberry and Carnegie Medal winning The Graveyard Book. He has created hundreds of album, comic and book covers, and has designed characters for two of the Harry Potter films. He has also directed two feature films, MirrorMask and Luna.
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,
I wanted to write this book but I wasn't clever enough. Now I've read it, I am
- Ricky Gervais,
<i>The Magic of Reality</i> provides a beautiful, accessible and wide ranging volume that addresses the questions that all of us have about the universe...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, author of Quantum Man, and A Universe from Nothing,
From the first sentence it reads with the force and fluency of a classic ... a luminous, authoritative prose that transcends age differences
The Times
A charming and free-ranging history of science
The Sunday Times
Stunning in appearance ... the book is a triumph
New Scientist
Prodigiously illustrated and beautifully designed... I cannot think of a better, or simpler, introduction to science
Guardian
This book may be exactly what's needed to increase science literacy for readers of all ages
Publishers Weekly
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
Financial Times
This book is primarily aimed at teenagers, but plenty of adults will get a kick out of it too...McKean's drawings bring the text to life brilliantly ... Dawkins writes convincingly about everything from chemistry to statistics
Independent on Sunday
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Richard Dawkins is the former Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University (1995-2008). His many bestsellers include The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion.
Dave McKean has illustrated many award winning books and graphic novels, including Coraline by Neil Gaiman, and the Newberry and Carnegie Medal winning The Graveyard Book. He has created hundreds of album, comic and book covers, and has designed characters for two of the Harry Potter films. He has also directed two feature films, MirrorMask and Luna.