STEPHEN HAWKING A recent biography and design


Books

Professor Hawking has published books many books on astrophysics which are shown below. More details, reviews and purchasing are available by following the links beneath each book description. Stephen has also published many scientific papers and lecture notes.

A recent biography...

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Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work is a compelling new biography that paints a rich picture of Stephen  Hawking as a courageous, indomitable man, a brilliant scientist, sometime iconoclast, splendid role model for disabled people, and international celebrity.

Ferguson’s extensively researched book follows him from childhood through school, university, graduate work at Cambridge, and onward in his
pitched battle not merely for survival but for nothing less than a full scientific understanding of the universe. Order your copy here.

The Grand Design

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When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent ‘grand design’ of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another explanation? In The Grand Design, the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe is presented in language marked by both brilliance and simplicity.

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The Universe in a Nutshell

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In 200 highly illustrated pages, Hawking is pushing the frontiers of popular physics beyond relativity and quantum theory, past superstring theory and imaginary time, into a dizzying new world of M-theory and branes.

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A Briefer History of Time

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Although “briefer,” this book is much more than a mere explanation of Hawking’s earlier work.

A Briefer History of Time both clarifies and expands on the great subjects of the original, and records the latest developments in the field—from string theory to the search for a unified theory of all the forces of physics.

Thirty-seven full-color illustrations enhance the text and makeA Briefer History of Time an exhilarating and must-have addition in its own right to the great literature of science and ideas.

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George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt

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The second in the series of children's books written by
 Stephen and Lucy Hawking. George and Annie, the 
middle-school cosmologists, return in this sequel to the 
2007 story, George's Secret Key to the Universe.

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 or buy this book please click here.

On the Shoulders of Giants

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On the Shoulders of Giants tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking explains how these works changed the course of science, ushering astronomy and physics out of the Middle Ages and into the modern world.

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A Brief History of Time

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Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help non-scientists understand fundamental questions of physics and our existence: where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how?

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George and the Big Bang

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With a full colour set of photographs, illustrating the wonder of the cosmos, George and the Big Bang, the final volume of the trilogy, brings George’s adventures in the universe to a fitting close.

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George's Secret Key to the Universe

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The first in a series of children's books that melds cosmology and adventure, co-authored by Professor Hawking and his daughter Lucy.

George's best friend Annie needs help. Her scientist father, Eric, is working on a space project - and it's all going wrong. A robot has landed on Mars, but is behaving very oddly. And now Annie has discovered something weird on her dad's super-computer...

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