12 year old Joel lives with his father in the cold northern part of Sweden. At night he often sneaks out of his father's house to look for a lonely dog he has seen from his window. On the bridge across the icy river he starts a secret society & has adventures. But one night he discovers that his father's bed is also empty & will have to come terms with his father's new-found love. The harsh reality of Joel's world comes vividly to life & leaves the reader spellbound. ...

12 year old Joel lives with his father in the cold northern part of Sweden. At night he often sneaks out of his father's house to look for a lonely dog he has seen from his window. On the bridge across the icy river he starts a secret society & has adventures. But one night he discovers that his father's bed is also empty & will have to come terms with his father's new-found love. The harsh reality of Joel's world comes vividly to life & leaves the reader spellbound. ...

Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has become an international publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages, ...

Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece which begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space & time. ...

Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has become an international publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages, it has sold over nine million copies worldwide & lives on as a science book that continues to captivate & inspire new readers each year. When it was first published in 1988 the ideas discussed in it were at the cutting edge of what was then known about the universe. In the intervening ten years there have been extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- & macro-cosmic world. Indeed, during that time cosmology & the theoretical sciences have entered a new golden age. Professor Hawking is one of the major scientists & thinkers to have contributed to this renaissance.

In this special, fully updated edition, which marks the tenth anniversary of the book's original ground-breaking publication, Professor Hawking has included the most recent developments in the field, many of which were forecast by him. He has also written a new introduction as well as an additional chapter on wormholes & time travel. A Brief History of Time has rightly been hailed as the publishing sensation of the past decade & is surely destined to become one of the greatest classics of science writing.

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