A Devil's ChaplainThe first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best selling author Richard Dawkins. Richard Dawkins's essays are an enthusiastic testament to the power of rigorous, scientific examination, and they span many different corners of his personal and professional life. He revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote about in his groundbreaking work The Selfish Gene. He makes moving tributes to friends and

Until now we have detected their presence only by what they leave

is widely considered to be the definitive biography of the Beatles

” — Lee Child

the flinty Mrs

revealing the surprising link between dairy surpluses and public health

Following Gabi’s trail

Roizen believes you can control your genes to a very large degree

Ben must keep one step ahead of a powerful maniac

tradition is colliding with Western culture

Estranged from her family since just after World War II

An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel

happiness and that youthful glow you thought you lost forever