Richard Dawkins/Bibliography

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Publications by Dawkins

Books

• The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989, 2006) ISBN 0-19-286092-5
• The Extended Phenotype (1982, 1999) ISBN 0-19-288051-9
• The Blind Watchmaker (1986, 1991, 2006) ISBN 0-393-31570-3
• River Out of Eden (1995) ISBN 0-465-06990-8; Audio (2000) ISBN 0-7528-3985-3
• Climbing Mount Improbable (1996) ISBN 0-393-31682-3
• Unweaving the Rainbow (1998) ISBN 0-618-05673-4
• A Devil's Chaplain (2003) ISBN 0-618-33540-4
• The Ancestor's Tale (2004) ISBN 0-618-00583-8; Audio (2005) ISBN 0-7528-7321-0
• The God Delusion (2006) ISBN 0-618-68000-4; Audio (2006) ISBN 1-84657-037-9

Essays

• Viruses of the Mind (online) (1993) – Religion as a mental virus.
• The Real Romance in the Stars (1995) – A critical view of astrology.
• The Emptiness of Theology (1998) – A critical view of theology.
• Snake Oil and Holy Water (1999) – Dawkins' argument that there is no convergence occurring between science and theism.
• Bin Laden's Victory (2003) – The Guardian editorial arguing Osama bin Laden was the real victor of the Iraq War.
• What Use is Religion? (2004) – Argues that religion may have no survival value other than to itself.
• Race and Creation (2004) – On race, its usage and a theory of how it evolved.
• The giant tortoise's tale, The turtle's tale and The lava lizard's tale (2005) – A series of three articles written after a visit to the Galápagos Islands.

Books about Dawkins and his ideas

• Ed Sexton (2001) Dawkins and the Selfish Gene (ISBN 1-84046-238-8) – A short summary and defence of Dawkins' ideas.
• Kim Sterelny (2001) Dawkins vs Gould: Survival of the Fittest (ISBN 1-84046-249-3) – Debates on evolutionary theory between Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould.
• Alister McGrath (2005) Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life (ISBN 1-4051-2538-1) – A critique of Dawkins' attack on theistic religion.
• Alan Grafen & Mark Ridley (eds.) (2006) Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think (ISBN 0-19-929116-0) – An anthology of 25 essays on Dawkins and his work.
• Keith Ward (2006) Is Religion Dangerous? (ISBN 978-0745952628) – A critique of Dawkins' suggestion that religion does more harm than good.
• Alister McGrath (2007) The Dawkins Delusion? (ISBN 978-0281059270) – A critical response to Dawkins' The God Delusion.
• John Cornwell (2007) Darwin's Angel (ISBN 9781846680489) – "An angelic riposte to The God Delusion."
• David Robertson (2007) The Dawkins Letters (ISBN 978-1845502614) – "Challenging atheist myths."