Product Description: Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and remarkable scientists of our age and author of the scientific bestseller ''A Brief History of Time'', which sold over 25 million copies across the world and will be adapted as a children's book in the Autumn of next year...read more

Product Description: This collection of personal stories was assembled to help bring more awareness to an insidious disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Discusses how new discoveries in the fields of cloning, genetics, and stem-cell research have impacted the lives of brothers Stephen and Jamie Heywood, the latter of whom is endeavoring to find a cure for the former's ALS. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Beak of the Finch. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Discusses how new discoveries in the fields of cloning, genetics, and stem-cell research have impacted the lives of brothers Stephen and Jamie Heywood, the latter of whom is endeavoring to find a cure for the former's ALS. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Beak of the Finch. Reader's Guide available.

Tells the story of a family that faced the financial and emotional burdens of a long illness and raises questions about the ethics of extended medical intervention