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Stephen Hawking's Universe: The Cosmos Explained
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Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has sold over 9 million copies worldwide. Now, in everyday language, Stephen Hawking's Universe reveals step-by-step how we can all share his understanding of the cosmos, and our own place within it. Stargazing has never been the same since cosmologists discovered that galaxies are moving away from each other at an extraordinary
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Paperback, 304 pages
Published
October 9th 1998
by Basic Books
(first published 1997)
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A companion book for the BBC series. I read this book to accompany/to inform my reading of A Brief History of Time. I had tried to read A Brief history before and got stuck on the black hole chapters. I found this book at a a re-sale shop and bought it with the hope that it would make my reading of the other easier. It has.
Although Hawkings writes simply in his book, his style is still academic and dry. Stephen Hawking's Universe is written in the language like the language used on the ...more
Although Hawkings writes simply in his book, his style is still academic and dry. Stephen Hawking's Universe is written in the language like the language used on the ...more
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.
This has been a good read. The author has put a lot of time and effort. Being a writer myself, I find it commendable. The content is decent and keeps you hooked for a long time. And some parts are simply minds blowing. I look forward to reading more books like this. All in all, a good experience for an avid reader like me.
Logical step up from brief history of time.
Liked the lengt and topics of this book. Stephen manages to explain his complex theories in a understandable way.
Only complain I have is the same as with brief history of time. The author occasionally slides into eco-centric places where he is flattering himself instead of staying on topic.
Liked the lengt and topics of this book. Stephen manages to explain his complex theories in a understandable way.
Only complain I have is the same as with brief history of time. The author occasionally slides into eco-centric places where he is flattering himself instead of staying on topic.
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A good book with lot of theories condensed together but with a great concluding philosophical question -' What is it all for? Science alone cannot answer this question.'
is interesting
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 that are enormous and
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This book was crazy interesting!! It had a lot of concepts I did not understand, but how he came to be, his accomplishments and discoveries are very intruiging. Took a while to read but worth the read.
This is a fabulous bok. It explains the most complex theories and ideas presented by modern physics using language that the average reader can comprehend. If you thought you could never understand Relativity and Qauntum Mehchanics, Think again!
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."
The title is a little deceiving ... the theories aren't all by Stephen Hawking. But this book takes some very complicated ideas and makes them almost understandable.
I liked it! Despite the topics, the book was not too difficult to read and understand.
Bought for my Old Man for Christmas, but (shh) it's really for me.
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.
Really liked the basic explanations but felt the author fabricated too much religious/political connection to science.
Read it a long time ago... From what I remember, it was my first intro. to dark matter.
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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.
A nice place to start if you are a person that knows next to nothing about astronomy and cosmology (like me!).
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..
Lots of topics are easy to understand. After black holes, I got lost and postponed to read it later.
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