Richard Dawkins begins The Greatest Show on Earth with a short history of his writing career. He explains that all of his previous books have naively assumed the fact of evolution, which meant that he never got around to laying out the evidence that it [evolution] is true. This shouldn't be too surprising: science is an edifice of tested assumptions, and just as physicists must assume the truth of gravity before moving on to quantum mechanics, so do biologists depend on the reality of evolution.
In a collection of all of the Beowulf Shaeffer stories, including one new one, the crashlander discovers a haunted planet, uncovers one of the puppeteers' greatest secrets, and has many other adventures.
The California Voodoo Game by Larry Niven & Steven Barnes
As Dream Park, the ultimate in amusement parks, plans to launch the California Voodoo Game, the greatest game ever created, only Alex Griffin, head of Dream Park Security, and Game Master Tony McWhirter know of its dangers.
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Parzival - With Titurel and the Love Lyrics
Vast in its scope, incomparably dense in its imagery, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival ranks alongside Dante's Divine Comedy as one of the foremost narrative works to emerge from medieval Europe. This book is a new translation of Parzival, together with the fragments of the Titurel, an elegiac offshoot of Parzival, and the nine love-songs attributed to Wolfram. Parzival is the greatest of the medieval Grail romances. In its depth and complexity of characterisation this work of the early thirteenth century anticipates the modern novel.
Anika Sorenstam - Discover the Life of a Sports Star
Annika Sorenstam is a world-class golfer. Her list of tournament victories and golfing awards could easily fill the pages of this book. Annika is already one of the greatest golfers of all time, and she may not have reached her peak yet.
