A Brief History of Time from the Big Bang to Black Holes

New York: Bantam Books, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Second state of the first printing with contents page present. Quarter black cloth with black paper-covered boards, SWH blind-stamped on front board, x, 198 pp, 35 figures, glossary, index. Damp stain (1 X 3 cm) at bottom of cloth on rear board (near spine); dye from this spot has bled onto bottom edge of last twenty leaves, otherwise book is very good with a bumped corner, slight edge wear, and a faded top edge. DJ is price clipped, with black stain on reverse (not visible on printed side) matching damp stain on cloth, else fine in Brodart archival cover. From the book: "Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? These are questions that are of interest to us all. But modern science has become so technical that only a very small number of specialists are able to master the mathematics used to describe them. Yet the basic ideas about the origin and fate of the universe can be stated without mathematics in a form that people without a scientific education can understand. This is what I have attempted to do in this book." Contents: Our picture of the universe; the expanding universe; the uncertainty principle; elementary particles and the forces of nature; black holes; black holes ain't so black; the origin and fate of the universe; the arrow of time; the unification of physics; conclusion; Albert Einstein; Galileo Galilei; Isaac Newton. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Illus. by Ron Miller. 23½ X 16 cm.