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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stephen Hawking, Stephen (University of Cambridge) Hawking
• Editore: Bantam UK
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.10.2014
• Categoria: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali
• EAN: 9780857502636
• ISBN: 978-0-85750-263-6
• Numero di pagine: 127
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.8 x 19.9 x 1.1 cm
• Serie: Bantam Press
• Categorie: Biographien (div.), Hawking, Stephen W., Education, Space, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Medicine, biography, popular science, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, Health, Autobiography, Jane Hawking, Medical, Physics, Quantum Physics, SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology, sci fi books, Biographies, quantum mechanics, autobiographies, books by stephen hawking, brief history of time stephen hawking, a brief history of time hawking