What is science and what is its true value? Can a scientist believe in God? Why, in this supposedly scientific age, is there such widespread fascination with flying saucers, faith healing, astrology and alien invasion? This work brings together topics ranging from the atomic bomb to ethics, the imagination to the meaning of life.

This text is a metaphor for the way individuals and unpredictable events influence history. In response history, suggests the author, is the best model for evolution. The author explores the science of improbable outcomes in this wide ranging book written on the evolutionary theme.

Shows that human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

A polemic against anti-science movements of several kinds. Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours. In this book, Richard Dawkins argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken, and shows how an understanding of science enhances our wonder of the world.

Featuring close to 400 definitions, arguments, and essays on topics ranging from acupuncture to zombies, this book offers information on various things. It covers such categories as alternative medicine; cryptozoology; extraterrestrials and UFOs; frauds and hoaxes; junk science; logic and perception; New Age energy; and the psychic.

This title offers lively, clear explanations of the most widely held astronomy myths and misperceptions, from why the sky is blue to the reasons we have seasons. It steers clear of the false astronomy that has been glamorized in the media, movies, and even in school.