Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time has sold over 9 million copies worldwide. Now, in everyday language, Stephen Hawking̵...
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Jul 06, 2007
Sarah Beth
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This is basically a book based on a TV series based on A Brief History of Time, which made it a good starting place in the hopes of working up to A Brief History, which I have tried, and failed, to read before. It gives a little history of astronomy until now and then a more in depth look at more recent discoveries and how they were reached: equations and particle accelerators and even cute little anecdotes about bets made and lost. It is peppered with pretty pictures and short chapters, a beg
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Mar 25, 2009
Nic
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This was a good layman's approach to astronomy and what we actually know and what we are just guessing about. It was fascinating and even though it was dumbed down as much as possible, towards the end it was still a little over my head. Very little to do with Stephen Hawking but a great book about the universe.
Oct 03, 2007
Nicole
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This book sets out to be the "Stephen Hakwing for Dummies." The first few pages promise that this is Hawking's theory "explained in everyday language." Really, this means that they have dumbed down Hawking's uber genius ideas so that other lesser geniuses can comprehend them. The result is this: overcomplicated theories explained in condesned (yet still somehow dense) language spaced out in little chunks on pages with a LOT of white space, combined with goofy pictures tha
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Jul 31, 2011
Patricia
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Loved it! The big bang, black holes, white dwarfs, time, life in the universe, and much more you didn't even know existed. All easy to understand.
Jul 06, 2011
Eriyna
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Really liked the basic explanations but felt the author fabricated too much religious/political connection to science.
Dec 17, 2009
Gina
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For all science nerds out there - here is something I could understand and it has lots of pictures. Hawking can explain something so complex and make it meaningful. I kept thinking, "Oh - so that's why."
Mar 07, 2008
Windfield
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I great read before the Golden Compass, it tells about dark matter and the stranger things in the universe like the multi dimension theory and the sort..
Dec 16, 2009
Melissa
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It's the companion to a television special I never saw, but it's got pictures! I like looking at pictures.
Jan 28, 2008
Wilson
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Read it a long time ago... From what I remember, it was my first intro. to dark matter.
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