Name: Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
SKU: 54030441
Price: 40.93 EUR
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Author: Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 9781838937850

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Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

Type

Physical Book

Author

Richard Dawkins

Illustrated by

Jana Lenzova

Publisher

Apollo Publishing International

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24x17.9x2.8 cm

Weight

0.95 kg.

ISBN13

9781838937850

Synopsis "Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution "

The Wonder of Flight. The Science of Evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies.Do you sometimes dream you can fly like a bird? Gliding effortlessly above the treetops, soaring and swooping, playing and dodging through the third dimension. Computer games, virtual reality headsets, and some drugs can lift our imagination and fly us through fabled, magical spaces. But it's not the real thing. No wonder some of the past's greatest minds, including Leonardo da Vinci's, have yearned for flying machines and struggled to design them.Flights of Fancy is a book about flying - all the different ways of defying gravity that have been discovered by humans over the centuries and by other animals over the millions of years, from the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but magnificent bird Argentavis magnificens, to the Wright Flyer and the 747. But it also means flights of digression into more general ideas and principles that take off from a discussion about actual flight.Fascinating and elegantly written, this is a unique collaboration between one of the world's leading zoologists and a talented artist, and perfect for enquiring teenage minds.

Richard Dawkins

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Chosen in 2013 as the world's most important intellectual by Prospect magazine, he rose to fame with The Selfish Gene, followed by The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, and Unweaving the Rainbow. He has received numerous awards and distinctions, such as the Royal Society of Literature award, the Author of the Year award at the British Book Awards, and the International Cosmos Prize.

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