Beyond The Black Hole: Stephen Hawkins Universe - John Boslough

Black holes - where space and time as we know them cease to exist, and which may yield vital clues to the creation of the universe. Black hole have execised the best scientific minds of the age, and none more so than Professor Stehen Hawking.

In 1963 doctors gave him only two years to live, yet he has gone on to be hailed by many as an equal to Einstein, his ideas of the utmost importance to our understanding of the universe's deepest mysteries.

This is the first, highly readable and absorbing introduction to the man and his work. A skillful guide through complex theory, it is also full of Hawking's personal insights into the implications of his discoveries, and contains one of his most seminal essays.