My Brief History by Stephen Hawking
The author has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inwards for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution. This book recounts his improbable journey.
Stephen Hawking [has] a brain of enviable vastness, seeing and understanding things that lie way beyond most of us.. His modesty is engaging * Daily Mail *
Hawking writes movingly... we hear his voice radiating directly from the black hole of his motor neuron disease, without the amplification and elaboration supplied by the co-authors with whom he wrote his last few books * Financial Times *
A concise, gleaming portrait * Nature *
Powerful... [his] brevity makes for a bold picture * Guardian *
Read it for the personal nuggets... But above all, it's worth reading for its message of hope * Mail on Sunday *
Hawking writes movingly... we hear his voice radiating directly from the black hole of his motor neuron disease, without the amplification and elaboration supplied by the co-authors with whom he wrote his last few books * Financial Times *
A concise, gleaming portrait * Nature *
Powerful... [his] brevity makes for a bold picture * Guardian *
Read it for the personal nuggets... But above all, it's worth reading for its message of hope * Mail on Sunday *
STEPHEN HAWKING was a brilliant theoretical physicist and is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and is the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design, and Black Holes: The BBC Reith Lectures.
He died on 14 March, 2018.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857502636 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857502638 |
| Title | My Brief History |
| Author | Stephen Hawking |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2018-03-22 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
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