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A Briefer History Of Time
by Stephen W. Hawking ; Leonard Mlodinow
ISBN: 0375728333
ISBN-13: 9780375728334
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Although hordes of people rushed to buy genius physicist Stephen Hawking's book, A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, very few of them actually understood it. Seventeen years later, Hawking, this time aided by a co-author, takes a second, and hopefully easier-to-understand, crack at explaining to the layperson how the most recent theories in astronomy and physics expand our knowledge about the nature of the universe.
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"[It] may be the clearest introduction to physics ever, and not just because it eschews equations, though that helps....[T]he developmental portrait-a biography, if you will-of a dynamic cosmos....Like the best biographies, it's an utterly engrossing read."
-- Booklist
"Hawking and Mlodinow provide one of the most lucid discussions of this complex topic ever written for a general audience....Throughout these discussions, the authors maintain the same wry, lively tone that made the original BRIEF HISTORY such a delight....Highly recommended." (starred review)
-- Publishers Weekly
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Published date: 2005
Size: 6.5 x 9.75 inches
Weight: 1.65 pounds
Pages: 260
Publisher's Notes
A shorter, more accessible edition of a now-classic survey of the origin and nature of the universe features thirty-eight new full-color illustrations, the elimination of some of the more technical material, and an expanded, easier to understand treatment of the volume's most important theoretical concepts. (Science & Mathematics)
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Mlodinow, Leonard, Hawking, Stephen
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