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My brief history

Recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his post-war London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity as the most brilliant cosmologist of our age.

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  • ""My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his post-war London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. This concise, witty and candid account introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him 'Einstein'; the jokester who once placed a bet with a colleague over the existence of a black hole; and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of academia."--Publisher's description."
  • "Recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his post-war London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity as the most brilliant cosmologist of our age."@en
  • "Recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age 21. Tracing his progress as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs, and talks about the genesis of his masterpiece A brief history of time."@en
  • "The famous physicist details the events of his life and career, including attending Oxford and Cambridge, his ALS diagnosis, his study of black holes, and his penning of the bestselling "A Brief History of Time.""@en
  • "Recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age 21. Tracing his progress as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs, and talks about the genesis of his masterpiece A Brief History of Time."@en

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  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en

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  • "My brief history"@en
  • "My brief history a memoir"

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