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100 1 $aFerguson, Kitty.
245 10 $aStephen Hawking :$bhis life and work /$cby Kitty Ferguson.
250 $aRev. and updated ed.
260 $aLondon :$bBantam,$c2011.
300 $a1 volume :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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500 $aPrevious edition: 1992.
505 0 $aPart one: 1942-1975 (1. 'The quest for a theory of everything' ; 2. 'Our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in' ; 3. 'Equal to anything!' ; 4. 'The realization that I had an inhcurable disease, that was likely to kill me in a few years, was a bit of a shock' ; 5. 'The big question was, was there a beginning or not?' ; 6. 'There is a singularity in our past') -- Part two: 1970-1990 (7. 'These people must think we are used to an astronomical standard of living' ; 8. 'Scientists usually assume there is a unique link between the past and the future, cause and effect. If information is lost, this link does not exist' ; 9. 'The odds against a universe that has produced life like ours are immense' ; 10. 'In all my travels, I have not managed to fall off the edage of the world' ; 11. It's turtles all the way down' ; 12. 'The field of baby universes is in its infancy') -- Part three: 1990-2000 (13. 'Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?' ; 14. 'Between film roles I enjoy solving physics problems' ; 15. I think we have a good chance of avoiding both Armageddon and a new Dark Age' ; 16. It seems clear to me') -- Part four: 2000-2011 (17. 'An expanding horizon of possibilities' ; 18. 'Grandad has wheels' ; 19. 'I've always gone in a somewhat different direction' ; 20. 'My name is Stephen Hawking: physicist, cosmologist and something of a dreamer').
520 $a" ... 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. ..."--Jacket.
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