| Product Summary | Format:  Audio Cassette Abridged | | ISBN: 9780553472301 | | Publisher: BDD Audio Publishing | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30100137 | | Item#: RFRN5H | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.25H x 4.5L x 1.5T |
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| | | Readers worldwide have come to know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal million-copy hardcover best-seller "A Brief History of Time. Bantam is proud to present the paperback edition of Dr. Hawking's first new book since that event, a collection of fascinating and illuminating essays, and a remarkable interview broadcast by the BBC on Christmas Day, 1992. These fourteen pieces reveal Hawking variously as the scientist, the man, the concerned world citizen, and-always-the rigorous and imaginative thinker. Hawking's wit, directness of style, and absence of pomp characterize all of them, whether he is remembering his first experience at nursery school; calling for adequate education in science that will enable the public to play its part in making informed decisions on matters such as nuclear disarmament; exploring the origins or the future of the universe; or reflecting on the history of "A Brief History of Time. Black Holes and Baby Universes is an important work from one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.
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This is a collection of 13 essays and an extended interview that was broadcast over the BBC in 1992. It ranges from the autobiographical to the purely scientific. Building on his earlier work, Hawking discusses imaginary time, how black holes can give birth to baby universes, and scientists' efforts to find a complete unified theory that would predict everything in the universe, a concept that he believes will come to seem as natural to the next generation as the world is round. In addition, he looks at how science theory converges with and diverges from science fiction, as well as how science fact interfaces with our own lives.
| Author Bio| Stephen W. Hawking | | Born in Oxford, England, Hawking studied at Oxford and Cambridge, and became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in 1979. His work in general relativity has led to a search for a quantum theory of gravity to explain black holes and the Big Bang. Around the time of the publication of his book, "The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time" in 1973, he published his results that black holes could emit particles in the form of thermal radiation, now known as Hawking radiation. Hawking suffered from Lou Gehrig's Disease (amyothropic lateral sclerosis), a rare, progressive, and incurable neuromoter disease that has rendered him almost completely paralyzed. Although he was confined to a wheelchair and able to speak only through a mechanical apparatus, Hawking continued to conduct cutting-edge research and be recognized as the preeminent scientist of his era. |
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