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Written by Stephen W. Hawking - Narrated by Michael Jackson - Unabridged Nonfiction - COMPACT DISCS

Publisher, Phoenix Audio (December 2005)

Special Anniversary Edition

Critical Acclaim for the hardcover edition of A Brief History of Time:

"Lively and provocative...Hawking clearly possesses a natural teacher's gifts--easy, good-natured humor and an ability to illustrate highly complex propositions with analogies plucked from daily life." --The New York Times

"Charming and lucid...gives the general reader an opportunity to learn some deep science from the source...[A book of] sunny brilliance." --The New Yorker

"This book marries a child's wonder to a genius's intellect. We journey into Hawking's universe while marveling at his mind."

--The Sunday Times (London)

A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world--observations that have confirmed many of Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book.

Now a decade later, this edition updates the chapters throughout to document those advances, and also includes an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel and a new introduction. It make vividly clear why A Brief History of Time has transformed our view of the universe.

About the Author: Stephen Hawking, who was born on the anniversary of Galileo's death in 1942, holds Isaac Newton's chair as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Widely regarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein, he is also the author of Black Holes and Baby Universes, a collection of essays published in 1993, as well as numerous scientific papers and books.