The Universe in a Nutshell

Author: Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time was a publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages, it has sold over nine million copies worldwide. It continues to captivate and inspire new readers every year. When it was first published in 1988 the ideas discussed in it were at the cutting edge of what was then known about the universe. In the intervening years there….Read More

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THE FIRST MAJOR WORK IN NEARLY A DECADE BY ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT THINKERS—A MARVELOUSLY CONCISE BOOK WITH NEW ANSWERS TO THE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS OF LIFE When and how… Continue Reading Posted in: Cosmology, Cosmology Research, Evolution, Popular Works, Research

Dreams of a Final Theory: The Search for The Fundamental Laws of Nature

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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics

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