My brief history
Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2013
Book
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. Stephen Hawking is one of the most brilliant cosmologists of our time, and author of the 10 million copy bestselling A Brief History of Time, one of the iconic books of its generation. Now, for the first time, he tells the story of his life in his own words, in a book expanded from a lecture of the same name. "When you are faced with an early death," writes Stephen Hawking, "it makes you realize that life is worth living and that there are lots of things you want to do." From his post-war childhood in London through his undergraduate years at Oxford, Hawking was smart but (according to him) undistinguished, not even the brightest child of his brilliant, eccentric parents. A great lover of jokes and bets, he made an art of doing as little work as possible.
Main title:
My brief history / Stephen Hawking.
Author:
Hawking, Stephen, 1942-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Bantam Press, 2013.
Collation:
127 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9780593072523 (hbk)0593072529 (hbk)
Dewey class:
530.092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
234516