The Illustrated A Brief History of Time/The Universe in a Nutshell
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The Illustrated A Brief History of Time In the years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Timehas established itself as a landmark volume in scientific writing and an international publishing phenomenon. The book as on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe, but since that time there have been extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic worlds. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book. Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these many observations, as well as his own most recent research, for this expanded edition Professor Hawking prepared a new introduction to the book, wrote an entirely new chapter on wormholes and time travel, and updated the original text. In addition, this edition is enhanced throughout with more than 240 full-color illustrations, including satellite images, photographs made possible by spectacular technological advances such as the Hubble Space Telescope, and computer-generated images of three- and four-dimensional realities. A classic work that now brings to the reader the latest understanding of cosmology, The Illustrated A Brief History of Timeis the story of the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space. The Universe in a Nutshell In this book, Stephen Hawking takes us to the cutting edge of theoretical p