CD Audiobook
My brief history [sound recording] / Stephen Hawking.
Recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age 21. Tracing his progress as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs, and talks about the genesis of his masterpiece A Brief History of Time.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780804164283 :
- Physical Description: 2 sound discs (ca. 2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio : p2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact discs. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Matthew Brenher. |
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| Subject: | Hawking, Stephen, 1942- Audiobooks. Black holes (Astronomy) Cosmology. Physicists > Great Britain > Biography. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | CD 530.092 Hawki | 31681002349462 | CDNONFIC | Available | - |
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The famous physicist details the events of his life and career, including attending Oxford and Cambridge, his ALS diagnosis, his study of black holes, and his penning of the bestselling "A Brief History of Time." - Random House, Inc.
Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.
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My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawkingâs improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. This concise, witty, and candid account introduces listeners to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein; the jokester who once placed a bet with a colleague over the existence of a particular black hole; and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of physics and cosmology.
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Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age twenty-one. Tracing his development as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs, and talks about the genesis of his masterpiece A Brief History of Timeâone of the iconic books of the twentieth century.
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Clear-eyed, intimate, and wise, My Brief History opens a window for the rest of us into Hawkingâs personal cosmos.
