Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780026001304 (0026001306)
Publish date: 1966
Publisher: The Macmillan company
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...