By Stephen Hawking
Published: 1988
Episode: Not in Portland
Reference: Being read by a guard outside the brainwashing room
Outline
It attempts to explain a range of subjects in cosmology, including the Big Bang, black holes, light cones and superstring theory, to the nonspecialist reader. Its main goal is to give an overview of the subject but, unusually for a popular science book, it also attempts to explain some complex mathematics..
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