Magic of Reality

What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen? Are we alone? Have you heard the tale of how the sun hatched out of an emu's egg? Has anyone ever told you that earthquakes are caused by a sneezing giant? This title answers all these questions.

Reviews

It's the clearest and most beautifully written introduction to science I've ever read. Again and again I found myself saying "Oh! So that's how genes work!" (or stars, or tectonic plates, or all the other things he explains). Explanations I thought I knew were clarified; things I never understood were made clear for the first time -- Philip Pullman
I wanted to write this book but I wasn't clever enough. Now I've read it, I am -- Ricky Gervais
The Magic of Reality provides a beautiful, accessible and wide ranging volume that addresses the questions that all of us have about the universe...written with the masterful and eloquently literate style of perhaps thebest popular expositor of science, Richard Dawkins, and delightfully illustrated by Dave McKean.What more could anyone ask for? -- Lawrence Krauss, author of Quantum Man, and A Universe from Nothing
From the first sentence it reads with the force and fluency of a classic ... a luminous, authoritative prose that transcends age differences * The Times *
A charming and free-ranging history of science * The Sunday Times *