Preview: Librairie Arthème, Fayard, Paris, 235 pp., ISBN: 978-2-213-63429-6, Price: € 30.00 Prof. Dr. Daniel Cherix, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore, CH-1015 Lausanne; Museum of Zoology, Pl. de la Riponne 6, CH-1014 Lausanne, Switzerland. E-mail: daniel.cherix@unil.ch Myrmecol. News 12: 66 (online 21 December 2008) Issn 1994-4136 (print), Issn 1997-3500 (online) Received 12 November 2008; accepted 17 November 2008 There are books you are ready to read but you never get around to it, and then there are books you constantly keep on your desk within reach for rereading. The latest book by Luc Passera belongs to this second category. The author retired from the University of Toulouse some years ago, but did not stop working. Among other works you might have read "Les fourmis, comportement, organisation sociale et évolution" published together with his Belgian colleague Serge Aron (Passera & Aron 2005) or "La véritable histoire des…