Book details of 'The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded Edition'
| Title | The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded Edition |
| Author(s) | Stephen W. Hawking |
| ISBN | 0553103741 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
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In the years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has
established itself as a landmark volume in scientific
writing. It has also become an international publishing phenomenon, translated into forty languages
and selling over nine million copies.
The book was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe, but
since then there have been extraordinary advances in the
technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world. These observations have
confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions
in the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer
satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and
revealed the wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected.
Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these many observations, as well
as his most recent research, for this revised and expanded edition Hawking has prepared a new
introduction to the book, revised and updated the original chapters throughout, and written an
entirely new chapter on the fascinating subject of wormholes and time travel.
In addition, to heighten understanding of complex concepts that readers may have found difficult to
grasp despite the clarity and wit of Hawking's writing, this edition is magnificently enhanced
throughout with more than 240 full-color illustrations, including satellite images, photographs made
possible by spectacular new technological advances such as the Hubble telescope, and computer-
generated images of three- and four-dimensional realities. Detailed captions clarify these
illustrations, enabling readers to experience the vastness of intergalactic space, the nature of black
holes, and the microcosmic world of
particle physics in which matter and antimatter collide.
A classic work that now brings to the reader the latest understanding of cosmology, The Illustrated
A Brief History of Time is the story of the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of
time and space.
