A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

Author(s): Stephen Hawking

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From the Big Bang to the theory of relativity, Stephen W. Hawking will challenge your imagination and expand your grasp of the cosmos. This is the classic revelatory science book of the last century. Here is a landmark book written for those of us who prefer words to equations. Told by an extraordinary contributor to the ideas of humankind, this is the story of the ultimate quest for knowledge, the ongoing search for the secrets at the heart of time and space. From the vantage point of the wheelchair where he has spent the last twenty years trapped by Lou Gehrig's disease, Professor Hawking him-self has transformed our view of the universe. A Brief History of Time is his classic introduction to today's most important scientific ideas about the cosmos.


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Winner of Aventis Prize for Science Books 1989.

"Master of the Universe... One scientist's courageous voyage to the frontiers of the Cosmos" Newsweek "This book marries a child's wonder to a genius's intellect. We journey into Hawking's universe, while marvelling at his mind" The Sunday Times "He can explain the complexities of cosmological physics with an engaging combination of clarity and wit... His is a brain of extraordinary power" Observer "To follow such a fine mind as it exposes such great problems is an exciting experience" The Sunday Times "One of the most brilliant scientific minds since Einstein" Daily Express

General Fields

  • : 9780857501004
  • : Random House UK
  • : BANTAM UK
  • : 0.219
  • : October 2011
  • : 198mm X 127mm X 16mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Stephen Hawking
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 256
  • : Illustrations