Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Filkin, David.

Title Stephen Hawking's universe : the cosmos explained / David Filkin
Edition First edition
Published New York : BasicBooks, [1997]
New York : BasicBooks, 1997
©1997
©1997

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  523.1 Fil/Shu  AVAILABLE
Description xv, 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents ch. 1. Sun, sky and inspiration -- ch. 2. Christian complications -- ch. 3. Seeing the light -- ch. 4. In the beginning -- ch. 5. Relics, singularities and ripples -- ch. 6. Matter of atoms -- ch. 7. Energy to create everything -- ch. 8. Searching in the dark -- ch. 9. Exotic excursions -- ch. 10. Extraterrestrial intelligence and the baffling quasars -- ch. 11. In search of black holes -- ch. 12. Blowing it up out of all proportion -- ch. 13. Everything tied up with string -- ch. 14. Stephen Hawking's universe
Summary "The Big Bang, black holes, time warps, life, our universe and everything; all explained in everyday language."
Notes Includes index
Subject Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018. Brief history of time.
Cosmography.
Cosmology.
LC no. 97033121
ISBN 0465081983 (paperback)
9780465081981 (paperback)