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First published in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is a landmark in scientific writing. For this expanded edition, Professor Hawking prepared a new introduction to the book, wrote an entirely new chapter on wormholes and time travel, and updated the original text. This edition is enhanced throughout with more than 240 full-color illustrations, including satellite images, photographs made possible by spectacular technological advances such as the Hubble Space Telescope, and computer-generated images of three- and four-dimensional realities. A classic work that now brings to the reader the latest understanding of cosmology, The Illustrated Brief History of Time is the story of the ongoing search for the secrets at the heart of time and space.
In The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking takes us to the cutting edge of theoretical physics, where he seeks to uncover the grail of science --the elusive Theory of Everything that lies at the heart of the cosmos. In his accessible and often playful style, he guides us on his search to uncover the secrets of the universe --from supergravity to supersymmetry, from quantum theory to M theory, from holography to duality. Copious four-color illustrations help clarify this journey into a surreal wonderland where particles, sheets, and strings move in eleven dimensions and where the original cosmic seed from which our universe sprang was a tiny nut.
"Straight talk of the nature of science and the universe...Dr. Hawking is a genius."
--The New York Times
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reviewed Illustrated A Brief History of Time & The Universe in a Nutshell on January 09, 2013 Illustrated A Brief History of Time & The Universe in a Nutshell
Both books back to back was a good thing. While the second was decidedly less mathematical than the first, it helped that all the complicated ideas (or, rather, numerous theories) were all fresh in my head. A Brief History of Time is stuff that can be introduced by a zillion TV documentaries nowadays, of course, but the benefit of the book is that it explains exactly why we know so much of what we know. This can, and frequently does, involve some higher thinking, which Stephen does an admirable job of dumbing down for us. He also takes us on the journey of scientific discovery through the ages, introducing great thinkers and explorers of every era, their triumphs, hits and misses, to show us where we are today, what we know, and why. But there's a great, great many aspects to our world and even universe that are understood and explained with a better answer than simply, 'because'. The depth and breadth of knowledge imparted by these two companion books is extraordinary and simply cannot be summed up shortly. It truly takes someone like Stephen Hawking to condense the universe into a nutshell! He does so with tremendous power, clarity, and more than a little humor.
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