Richard Dawkins
A brilliant evolutionist, polemical in his attack upon religion as an explanation of our world, Richard Dawkins was one of our fastest-selling events of 2008. In conversation with Paula Kirby, atheist and former Christian, he tackles life on Earth and the rest of the universe.
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