My Brief History

His clarity, wit and determination are evident, his understand and good humour moving' New ScientistMy Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his post-war London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Lavishly illustrated with rarely seen photographs, this concise, witty and candid account introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him 'Einstein'; the jokester who once placed a bet with a colleague over the existence of a black hole; and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of academia.Writing with characteristic humility and humour, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of motor neurone disease aged twenty-one. Tracing his development as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onwards through numerous intellectual breakthroughs, and talks about the genesis of his masterpiece A Brief History of Time - one of the iconic books of the twentieth century.Clear-eyed, intimate and wise, My Brief History opens a window for the rest of us into Hawking's personal cosmos.'Read it for the personal nuggets . . . but above all, it's worth reading for its message of hope' Mail on Sunday

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Hawking, Stephen (University of Cambridge) Hawking
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2014
• EAN: 9780857502636
• ISBN: 978-0-85750-263-6
• No. of pages: 127
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 199 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Bantam Press
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biographien (div.), Hawking, Stephen W., SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, popular science, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology