How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality

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Review Nobody deals with challenging subjects more interestingly and compellingly than Adam Rutherford, and this may be his best book yet. This is a seriously important work (BILL BRYSON)Characteristically far-reaching, insightful and brilliant, Adam Rutherford casts his net wide in a book that is as timely as it is invigorating and important (PETER FRANKOPAN)This fascinating, illuminating and original book on human evolution and development is essential reading in an age of false science, resurgent racism and conspiracy theory - and the perfect antidote to racial bigotry (SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE)Adam Rutherford is a master storyteller (HANNAH FRY)If teaching is what makes humans special, then Adam Rutherford is superhuman - a truly gifted transmitter of knowledge: lucid, enlightening, witty and delightful (KATE FOX)Timely and accessible (Caroline Sanderson THE BOOKSELLER, Editor's Choice) Book Description An illuminating manifesto for a twenty-first century understanding of human evolution and variation - and a weapon against scientific racism - by the author of A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED See all Product description