Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays - Hardcover

Stephen W. Hawking

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593034007 ISBN 13: 9780593034002

Publisher: Bantam Press, 1993

Synopsis

Covering subjects ranging from the personal to the wholly scientific, this is a collection of Stephen Hawking's essays and other pieces, revealing him as scientist, man, concerned world citizen and imaginative thinker. He recalls his first experience of nursery school, punctures the arrogance of those who think science can best be understood only by other scientists, explores the origins and the future of the universe, and reflects on the phenomenon of his bestselling book, "A Brief History of Time". Some of the pieces reflect familiar material in fresh ways, while others are entirely new - including the lengthy transcript of Hawking's conversation on "Desert Island Discs".

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Review:

"Is the universe going to expand into eternity or will everything collapse in one Big Crunch in which physical laws become meaningless? Stephen Hawking, author of the phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time, sheds light on the darkest regions of space and time and considers an extraordinary array of possibilities for our future?" (The Times)

"Stephen Hawking has done it again. In A Brief History of Time he succeeded in interesting the widest possible audiences in the most abstract of theoretical astrophysics. Now he has once more broken out of the scientific ghetto to claim the intellectual and cultural high ground for science... Black Holes and Baby Universes takes us still further, almost over the limit...Turn to Stephen Hawking if you would look outward, to the ends of the universe" (Independent on Sunday)

From the Publisher:

A collection of essays, both personal and scientific, from the bestselling author of A Brief History of Time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0593034007
• ISBN 13: 9780593034002
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192