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“[Hawking] can explain the complexities of cosmological physics with an engaging combination of clarity and wit. . . . His is a brain of extraordinary power.”-The New York Review of Books

“This book marries a child’s wonder to a genius’s intellect. We journey into Hawking’s universe while marvelling at his mind.”-The Sunday Times (London)

“Masterful.”-The Wall Street Journal

“Charming and lucid . . . [A book of] sunny brilliance.”-The New Yorker

“Lively and provocative . . . Mr. 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

“Even as he sits helpless in his wheelchair, his mind seems to soar ever more brilliantly across the vastness of space and time to unlock the secrets of the universe.”-Time

Foreword
Ch. 1 Our Picture of the Universe 1
Ch. 2 Space and Time 15
Ch. 3 The Expanding Universe 37
Ch. 4 The Uncertainty Principle 55
Ch. 5 Elementary Particles and the Forces of Nature 65
Ch. 6 Black Holes 83
Ch. 7 Black Holes Ain't So Black 103
Ch. 8 The Origin and Fate of the Universe 119
Ch. 9 The Arrow of Time 147
Ch. 10 Wormholes and Time Travel 159
Ch. 11 The Unification of Physics 171
Ch. 12 Conclusion 187
Albert Einstein 192
Galileo Galilei 194
Isaac Newton 196
Glossary 199
Acknowledgments 205
Index 207

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.