Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38966 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 132 pages

Customer Reviews

Hawking has disowned this book
Stephen Hawking's home page states that he hasn't endorsed this book and that "a complaint was made to the Federal Trade Commission in the US in the hope that they would prevent the publication". The site urges people "not to purchase this book in the belief that Professor Hawking was involved in its creation."

hawking...decipherable at last
i must admit that when i was first introduced to stephen hawking's books i did regard them as far too heavy. but when i came across this, and bought it, i realised truly how amazing he is at putting forward complex concepts in an entirely understandable way. it's almost like reading a normal novel as bed-time reading!
clearly the grey matter inside the book is extensive, but i would recommend it to anyone hoping to gain more of an insight into our complex universe without passing out.
God bless prof. stephen hawking!

The answer is 42.
Fascinating, but extremely brief. At only 167 pages, I read the
book, cover to conver in less than 2 hours. I can't say I'm
dissapointed, but I'd have liked a little more at this price.

Content focusses on the successive models and theories that
science has employed to discover the inner workings of the world
around us. Including much of Hawkings on work on black holes,
theories on the expansion and contraction of the universe, and
the 'direction' of time.

A little more content would easily have cranked this up to 5 star
material. I'm giving it 4 starts only becuase it's a little short.
Good stuff!