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Unweaving the rainbow : science, delusion, and the appetite for wonder

Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
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"Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, and combines them in a landmark statement of the human appetite for wonder."--Jacket.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 0395883822 9780395883822
OCLC Number: 39922946
Description: xiv, 336 pages ; 24 cm
Contents: ch. 1. Anaesthetic of familiarity --
ch. 2. Drawing room of dukes --
ch. 3. Barcodes in the stars --
ch. 4. Barcodes on the air --
ch. 5. Barcodes at the bar --
ch. 6. Hoodwink'd with faery fancy --
ch. 7. Unweaving the uncanny --
ch. 8. Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance --
ch. 9. Selfish cooperator --
ch. 10. Genetic book of the dead --
ch. 11. Reweaving the world --
ch. 12. Balloon of the mind.
Responsibility: Richard Dawkins.
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"Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, and combines them in a landmark statement of the human appetite for wonder."--Jacket.

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