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Book SynopsisSam Harris (Author) Sam Harris is the author of five
New York Times bestsellers. His books include
The End of Faith,
Letter to a Christian Nation,
The Moral Landscape,
Free Will,
Lying, and
Waking Up.
The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. His work has been published in more than twenty languages. Harris has written for the
New York Times, the
Los Angeles Times, the
Economist,
The Times, the
Boston Globe, the
Atlantic,
Annals of Neurology, and other outlets. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA. Please visit his website at SamHarris.org.
Richard Dawkins (Foreword By) Richard Dawkins is author of
The Selfish Gene, voted The
Royal Society's Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time, and also the bestsellers
The Blind Watchmaker,
Climbing Mount Improbable,
The Ancestor's Tale,
The God Delusion, and two volumes of autobiography,
An Appetite for Wonder and
Brief Candle in the Dark. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and a fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world's top thinker in
Prospect magazine's poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.
Trade ReviewI dare you to read this book... it will not leave you unchanged. Read it if it is the last thing you do -- Richard Dawkins
Sam Harris's elegant little book is the most refreshing and wonderful source of ammunition for those who, like me, hold to no religious doctrine... Read it and form your own view, but do not ignore its message -- Roger Penrose
Sam Harris is a brave, intelligent, clear-sighted author whose brilliant essay should be read by every adult who has ever believed that a religious faith can solve the world's problems -- Desmond Morris
Harris and (Richard) Dawkins both share a wonderfully refreshing refusal to parse their language into more saccharine statements... Guaranteed to enrage all but the most delusional theist * Irish Independent *
Harris picks apart the very seams of Christian belief in such a convincing fashion that any shred of belief I had has now been obliterated. This is a good thing. We only get one life - why waste one minute of it on mumbo jumbo * London Lite *
