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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? <p> --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

It's the clearest and most beautifully written introduction to science I've ever read . . . 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 * Prodigiously illustrated and beautifully designed ... I cannot think of a better, or simpler, introduction to science. * Guardian * From the first sentence it reads with the force and fluency of a classic ... a luminous, authoritative prose that transcends age differences. * The Times * With fabulous illustrations by Dave McKean, Richard Dawkins' The Magic of Reality is an outstanding science book. Written in a simple. conversational style that will appeal to adults as well as teenagers, it really does explain complex subjects clearly. Every home should have a copy of this beautifully produced book. -- Marilyn Brocklehurst * The Bookseller * The Magic of Reality 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. * A charming and free-ranging history of science. * Sunday Times * Stunning in appearance ... the book is a triumph. * New Scientist * 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. * The Financial Times *

It's the clearest and most beautifully written introduction to science I've ever read ... 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 Prodigiously illustrated and beautifully designed ... I cannot think of a better, or simpler, introduction to science. Guardian From the first sentence it reads with the force and fluency of a classic ... a luminous, authoritative prose that transcends age differences. The Times With fabulous illustrations by Dave McKean, Richard Dawkins' The Magic of Reality is an outstanding science book. Written in a simple. conversational style that will appeal to adults as well as teenagers, it really does explain complex subjects clearly. Every home should have a copy of this beautifully produced book. -- Marilyn Brocklehurst The Bookseller 20120622

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Richard Dawkins is author of The Selfish Gene, voted The Royal Society's Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time, and also the bestsellers The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor's Tale, The God Delusion, and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder and Brief Candle in the Dark. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford and both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world's top thinker in Prospect magazine's poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.

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