I forgot that WEIT was being published in Hebrew—by an Israeli firm called Books in the Attic. At last my people will be able to read it in the original language through which Yahweh transmitted the book to me. Here is the new cover (reversed, of course, because Hebrew is written right to left). I […]
. . . and want a copy of WEIT in your own language, you can order it here from the estimable firm Tinta da China, a Lisbon firm run by three young women. They’re starting a science series (my book is the first) and are also looking for good popular-science books in English to translate […]
Alert reader Michael informs me that WEIT is now available (OUP version) on Kindle in the UK. Amazon.co.uk has it for £5.79. I was amused to see that you can also buy this book too, and for only two pounds 61 pence: Here’s an excerpt: Nierode’s Ph.D. is in engineering, of course, and the title means […]
My friend Martim Melo sent me three photos he took at the launch of WEIT in Portuguese at the Serralves Foundation in Porto. Immodestly, I present them here. The book cover is nice: The discussion afterwards, with Nuno Ferrand, my host at the Institute, lasted about an hour. Every single question from the audience was […]
A while back, Amazon ran out of the hardcover version of WEIT, for —or so I had assumed—hardcover books eventually stop being printed after the paperback is available. In fact, since I had run out of hardcovers for gifts and the like, I had to buy some from used-book dealers. For some reason, though, Amazon […]
At the risk of seeming a bit self-aggrandizing (which of course is true), I have to say I’m chuffed at a mention of WEIT on a Daily Beast post, “What Richard Dawkins reads: Jerry Coyne, Helena Cronin and more.” Like my previous interview at The Browser, where I recommended Dawkins and four other books, he selects WEIT […]
I have an email from Brian, who assisted with the atheist/skeptic/secularist auction for Doctors Without Borders last weekend. There were two autographed copies of WEIT on offer on eBay, and I’m happy to hear this: We got $565 total for the two books and I mailed them off today. It looks like your readers came […]
If evolution is a scientific theory worth its salt, then there must be some conceivable observations that could show it to be wrong. I just wanted to put down, for the record, what some of those observations might be. First, let’s reprise what I see as the major components of the theory of evolution. Evolution […]
This photo was taken by my friend Florian Maderspacher, Senior Reviews Editor of Current Biology, on a visit to China. Florian notes: ”Chinese edition of WEIT filed between fossils of feathered dinosaurs, seen in the office of Zhou Zhonghe during a recent visit to IVPP [Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology] in Beijing.” Florian explains: […]
