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Stephen Hawking : his life and work : the story and science of one of the most extraordinary, celebrated, and courageous figures of our time

Kitty Ferguson approached Stephen Hawking with the idea of writing a book about him and asked him to help her make certain she understood his theories. He agreed and also gave her material about his life, resulting in this book.

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  • "Stephen Hawking's quest for a theory of everything"
  • "Stephen Hawking"@pl

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  • "Kitty Ferguson approached Stephen Hawking with the idea of writing a book about him and asked him to help her make certain she understood his theories. He agreed and also gave her material about his life, resulting in this book."@en
  • "This is the story of one of the most remarkable figures of our time - Professor Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge genius who has earned an international reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. This is not quite a biography; it is more the story of one man's quest to find the 'Theory of Everything'. Stephen Hawking's life and work have produced a multitude of amazing paradoxes: beginnings may be endings, two great scientific theories taken together may seem to give us nonsense, empty space isn't empty, and black holes aren't black. Cruel circumstances can lead to happiness, and fame and success may not. A man whose appearance inspires shock and pity takes us to where the boundaries of space and time ought to be - but are not. Substantially updated with new information drawn from interviews with Professor Hawking regarding his theories and personal life, together with fascinating new photographs from his early life to the present day, this is an insightful and captivating account of an extraordinary life and a brilliant mind."
  • "This is not quite a biography; it is more the story of one man's quest to find the 'Theory of Everything'. Stephen Hawking's life and work have produced a multitude of amazing paradoxes: beginnings may be endings, two great scientific theories taken together may seem to give us nonsense, empty space isn't empty, and black holes aren't black. Cruel circumstances can lead to happiness, and fame and success may not. A man whose appearance inspires shock and pity takes us to where the boundaries of space and time ought to be - but are not. Substantially expanded and updated with new information drawn from interviews with Professor Hawking regarding his theories and personal life, together with fascinating new photographs from his early life to the present day, this is an insightful and captivating account of an extraordinary life and a brilliant mind."
  • ""... Twenty years ago, Kitty Ferguson's Stephen Hawking; Quest for a Theory of Everything became a ... bestseller. She now returns to transform that ... book into a ... biography, giving a rich picture of Hawking's childhood, the ... beginning of his struggle with motor neurone disease when he was a first-year graduate student, his ever-increasing international fame, and his long personal battle for survival in pursuit of a scientific understanding of the universe. ..."--Book jacket."@en
  • ""Stephen Hawking has been an iconic figure in physics for the last half a century, making many groundbreaking discoveries on the nature of the universe. Yet while his mind roams to the farthest corners of reality, his body has become increasingly trapped by the advance of Lou Gehrig's disease, which has bound him to a wheelchair, without speech or movement except for a few facial muscles. Told in his youth that he would not live past his 20s, Hawking will turn 70 in 2012, and today he continues to inspire millions, drawing rock-concert-sized crowds wherever he lectures. Science writer Kitty Ferguson has been working with Stephen Hawking for decades, and produced an internationally bestselling biography of his life in 1992. Now, she brings his life as well as his scientific discoveries up-to-date. This is a remarkable look at how one of the greatest scientific mind alive overcame the odds to become the truly inspirational figure he is today"--"
  • ""This is the story of one of the most remarkable figures of our time - Professor Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge genius who has earned an international reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. This is not quite a biography; it is more the story of one man's quest to find the 'Theory of Everything'. Stephen Hawking's life and work have produced a multitude of amazing paradoxes: beginnings may be endings, two great scientific theories taken together may seem to give us nonsense, empty space isn't empty, and black holes aren't black. Cruel circumstances can lead to happiness, and fame and success may not. A man whose appearance inspires shock and pity takes us to where the boundaries of space and time ought to be - but are not. Substantially updated with new information drawn from interviews with Professor Hawking regarding his theories and personal life, together with fascinating new photographs from his early life to the present day, this is an insightful and captivating account of an extraordinary life and a brilliant mind.""@en
  • "Presents the life of the British theoretical physicist who has taken the study of cosmology farther than most in his field, despite the need for a wheelchair and computer in order to travel and communicate."
  • "The story of the life and work of the British theoretical physicist who has taken the study of cosmology farther than most in his field, despite the need for a wheelchair and computer in order to travel and communicate."

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  • "Juvenile works"
  • "Biografie"@pl
  • "Popular works"
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  • "Biography"
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  • "Biografieën (vorm)"

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  • "Stephen Hawking his life and work : the story and science of one of the most extraordinary, celebrated and courageous figures of our time"
  • "Stephen Hawking : his life and work : the story and science of one of the most extraordinary, celebrated, and courageous figures of our time"
  • "Stephen Hawking : his life and work : the story and science of one of the most extraordinary, celebrated, and courageous figures of our time"@en
  • "Das Universum des Stephen Hawking : eine Biographie"
  • "Stephen Hawking his life and work"@en
  • "Stephen Hawking"
  • "Stephen Hawking, his life and work : the story and science of one of the most extraordinary, celebrated and courageous figures of our time"@en
  • "Stiven Khoking : zhiznʹ i nauka"
  • "Stephen Hawking : poszukiwania teorii wszystkiego"
  • "Stephen Hawking : poszukiwania teorii wszystkiego"@pl
  • "Stephen Hawking'le zaman ve uzayda gezinti"@tr
  • "Das Universum des Stephen W. Hawking : eine Biographie"
  • "Stephen Hawking : his life and work : the story and science of one of the most extraordinary, celebrated and courageous figures of our time"
  • "Stephen Hawking : his life and work : the story and science of one of the most extraordinary, celebrated and courageous figures of our time"@en
  • "Стивен Хокинг : жизнь и наука"
  • "Stephen Hawking : quest for a theory of everything : the story of his life and work"
  • "Stephen Hawking y la búsqueda de una teoría del universo"
  • "Stephen Hawking y la búsqueda de una teoría del universo"@es
  • "Stephen Hawking : his life and work"@en
  • "Stephen Hawking : his life and work"

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