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An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

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New York Timesbestselling author and renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins delivers an intimate look into his own childhood and intellectual development, illuminating his path to becoming one of the foremost thinkers in modern science today

“A memoir that is funny and modest, absorbing and playful. Dawkins has written a marvelous love letter to science . . . and for this, the book will touch scientists and science-loving persons . . . Enchanting.” —NPR

© 2013 Ecco (Lydbog): 9780062283566
© 2013 Ecco (E-bog): 9780062225818

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Lydbog: 24. september 2013
E-bog: 24. september 2013

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