A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Abstract: This account of the history of the universe was written for the layman by one of the most renowned physicists of the 20th century.

Keywords: book review, science, astrophysics, modern physics, cosmology.

Title: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes Author: Stephen W. Hawking Foreword: Carl Sagan Illustrator: Ron Miller Publisher: Bantam Books Date Published: May 1990 ISBN: 0553077724 : $25.00 LOCN: QB981.H377 1988 Dewey: 523.1 19 Pages: 198 Figures: 35

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CONTENTS

Introduction by Carl Sagan

Chapter 1: Our Picture of the Universe

Chapter 2: Space and Time

Chapter 3: The Expanding Universe

Chapter 4: The Uncertainty Principle

Chapter 5: Elementary Particles and the Forces of Nature

Chapter 6: Black Holes

Chapter 7: Black Holes Ain't So Black

Chapter 8: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

Chapter 9: The Arrow of Time

Chapter 10: The Unification of Physics

Chapter 11: Conclusion

Albert Einstein

Galileo Galilei

Isaac Newton

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DATA

Author:        Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)
Title:         A brief history of time : from the big bang to
                  black holes / Stephen W. Hawking ; introduction by Carl Sagan
                  ; illustrations by Ron Miller.
Published:     Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1988.
Description:   x, 198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
LC Call No.:   QB981.H377 1988
Dewey No.:     523.1 19
ISBN:          0553052438
Notes:         Includes index.
Subjects:      Cosmology.
Control No.:   87033333 

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