by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
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If you're thinking of reading A Brief History of Time, read this first. At least if you're a total civilian, which I am. My son and I read this together. We did have to hit the Internet pretty hard a few times to get clarification on some critical points; but all in all, this is a well-written, acce...
Stephen Hawking's explanations of physics and the mathematics attached thereto were far more useful to me than anything I learned at school. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to those interested in having a layman's understanding of quantum mechanics, string theory and other scientific discoveri...
This is the new version of the book once called the most widely-owned book no one's ever read. And it's pretty thick stuff. I think there are other authors - Greene's "Elegant Universe" comes to mind - who do a better job explaining these tough concepts than Hawking does.Keep in mind, though, that...
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