Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World In Our Time
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780913022146 (0913022144)
Publish date: January 1st 1974
Publisher: Macmillan Co
Pages no: 348
Edition language: English
This gigantic book - 1350 pages! - reminds me in an odd way of Roger Penrose's almost equally massive The Road to Reality, which I read last year. In both cases, we have an unusually gifted person, who sets out to present an integrated overview of an entire field. For Penrose, it's modern physics; f...