Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Hawking have had a major impact on the loud and popular debate between \"aggressive atheists\" and religion. The huge sales of their bestselling books show just how much interest people have in their ideas....

Stephen Hawking\'s worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark publication in scientific books. A Briefer History of Time expands on the great subjects of the original. Purely technical concepts, such as the mathematics of chaotic boundary conditions, are gone....