A Brief History of Time

This book explains, for general readers, the physical picture of the universe developed by modern cosmology and gravity theory. Hawking discusses space and time, the expanding universe, black holes, the uncertainty principle, elementary particles, and the attempt to join general relativity with quantum mechanics in an account of the beginning and possible fate of the cosmos. Equations are few; the argument proceeds by thought experiments and by the history of ideas from Newton and Einstein onward. The book is popular science, not a specialist textbook and not a memoir.

Quarter-bound in blocked cloth with printed paper sides.