The Universe in a Nutshell

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• Strung out

  The Universe in a Nutshell Stephen Hawking 216pp, Bantam, £20 When the world's most famous living cosmologist issues another State of the Universe report, what should we expect? A great deal, if we take seriously the promises made in his tearaway bes ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• A hard nut to crack

  Apparently, an American journalist once went to a New York bookstore and tucked a voucher two-thirds of the way through several hundred copies of Umberto Eco's novel, Foucault's Pendulum. The voucher promised $50 to anyone who sent it in as a reward ... (read full critics)

  spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

4 Reviews

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  You can consider this as a book for physics and cosmology 101. With the graphical illustration, this book is much easier to comprehend than "A Brief History of Time"! That said, the topic is still too technical and hard for me. :(

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  Waleswong said on Jan 19, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  It took two or three reads at each page but damn it I read it and understood it with the help of wikipedia. Beautiful illustration but gets rather technical.

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  Marko 45142 said on Feb 25, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  I think I'm still too dumb to get this stuff, even with the pictures. To me, the pictures and diagrams didn't really help me understand much more than I did before. Still fun to try to understand though :)

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  Deanna Kyre said on Sep 28, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  A bref history of time in a easy to read format.

  A bref history of time in a easy to read format.

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  Gaurav Chaturvedi said on Sep 15, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 222 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0593048156
• ISBN-13: 9780593048153
• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Pub date: Nov 05, 2001
• Dimensions: 1677 mm x 1290 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
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