Based on a documentary film on Hawking and his work, this reader's companion features candid personal interviews with Hawking's family and friends, personal photographs, and illustrations of his theories. 250,000 first printing. $250,000 ad/promo. Movie tie-in.

Product Description: The proceedings of a symposium on the formation and evolution of cosmic strings. Thirty of the top scientists in the field review recent progress in our understanding of the physical structure of cosmic strings, their formation processes in the early universe and how they might have evolved...read more

Product Description: Historia del tiempo: Del big bang a los agujeros negros (Spanish Edition)

Product Description: This volume contains papers presented at the Nuffield Workshop on supersymmetry and its applications held at Cambridge in the summer of 1985 and attended by many of the leading experts in the field. In physical terms, supersymmetry is a symmetry or gauge invariance which connects bosons (particles with integer spin) with fermions (particles with half integer spin)...read more

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