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A Brief History of Time

De : Stephen Hawking
Lu par : Michael Jackson
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    I know my fair share of science from a couple of courses I took in school, but Professor Hawking really got me thinking when he asked me to stew over this question: what do we really know about the universe? This spawns another question: was God forced to create the Universe? Tough issues to deal with in a book! Have no fear, though, we have one of the most brilliant minds, who heads up a post at Cambridge once headed by Newton himself, to guide us through history, from the Greeks, to Copernicus, to recent discoveries. (Tony H.)

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    This landmark book is for those of us who prefer words to equations; this is the story of the ultimate quest for knowledge, the ongoing search for the secrets at the heart of time and space. Its author, Stephen W. Hawking, is arguably the greatest mind since Einstein. From the vantage point of the wheelchair, where he has spent the last 20 years trapped by Lou Gehrig's disease, Professor Hawking has transformed our view of the universe. A Brief History of Time is Hawking's classic introduction to today's most important scientific ideas about the cosmos. It is read here by the Emmy Award-winning host of The Michael Jackson Show on KABC-TV.
    ©1988 Stephen W. Hawking (P)2005 Phoenix Books, Inc.

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    "A masterful summary of what physicists now think the world is made of and how it got that way." ( The Wall Street Journal)
    "Lively and provocative, Hawking clearly possesses a natural teacher's gift, easy, good-natured humor, and an ability to illustrate highly complex propositions with analogies plucked from daily life." ( The New York Times)

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    Great book, poorly read

    This a great book and you should hear it. But the reader "swallows" a lot and make funny annoying noises.... His voice is clear and good though.

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    • James
    • 19/05/2004

    Easily Digestible Presentation of Complex Topics

    Content - This is a "pop physics" classic. Fairly complex topics are covered in an entertaining and clear manner. There is a "leap" in the book in moving from the macro to the micro, but this isn't so much a function of the book, but of the science at this point.
    Math isn't really needed, but a scientific mindset helps

    Adaptation - as it is unabridged, there is little in the way of adaptation. The "voice" of the book is of a "lecture" type which translates well. There are figures in the printed work that help clarify things, but these are few and only minimally impact the experience

    Narration - Solid. It is a fairly emotionally even subject and the reader doesn't attempt to "overdress" the text.
    I have heard Hawking lectures read by Hawking and, sadly, the mechanical voice can be stressful to listen to at first (you do get used to it), but a professional human reader is easier

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    • Jeff Parent
    • 15/11/2003

    Great book, but....

    I really enjoyed this book. It helped me better understand many of the great advances in physics, astronomy, and cosmology of the 20th century. The narration was great and included a couple jokes and personal notes about/from the author that lent a human touch to the subject.

    As good as the book is, I think it would be a real struggle for those who don?t already have a familiarity with some of the topics. Further, because of the books age some of the ideas are out of date (e.g. the latest evidence is that the universe is not only expanding, but doing so at an ever increasing rate). Nonetheless, the book is worth reading and re-reading (as I?ll do).

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    • Shana
    • 02/04/2012

    Find another narrator

    Would you try another book from Stephen Hawking and/or Michael Jackson?

    While the content from Stephen Hawking is interesting, it's difficult to follow due to the narrator's very strange vocal cadence. Not only is his timing odd, but it sounds as if it's the first time he's glanced at the manuscript, stumbling over words.

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    • Raema
    • 05/11/2006

    would recommend to anyone

    A few people said here that the book was boring because they already knew all the concepts... I couldn't DISagree more. I'm a physics/astrophysics student in my senior year, and know all these concepts like the back of my hand, but this book was still such a pleasure to listen to. Hawking writes in such a way that this book was one of the best I've ever encountered (on these topics), and has the potential to really intreague anyone and everyone. I'd recommend it to anyone!

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    • Austin
    • 16/03/2005

    Uncommonly good!

    As you already know what this book is about, I will tell you how it affected a student with limited mathematical background and none in physics. Well, it was wonderful- this is one of the only audiobooks for which I must abandon all other sources of distraction. Hawking's descriptions and analogies are spot-on for my taste, and I rarely had to re-listen to any of it to grasp the concepts.
    The narration is good too. Jackson, thankfully unique from most stoic-sounding professionals, actually gets caught up in what he is reading! I believe that speaks volumes, as it were, about the book itself. Even (and perhaps especially) if you're not a fan of these topics, take this chance to culture yourself with this mind-expanding prize.

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    • Anthony G Lazaro
    • 06/02/2012

    Can barely listen

    While I expect the underlying book to be pretty good, the narration is so bad that I simply couldn't get through more than about an hour of this recording. The reader clearly has difficulty with scientific terms and pronunciation, but that is something that should be taken care of in production. With randomly quickly-read clauses and terms interspersed with slowly read sentences, it's just too difficult to follow what Dr. Hawking is saying.

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    • Donald
    • 22/05/2003

    Great book, great recording

    I'm going through this for a second time a year or so after the first and am loving it. The writing is personal with insight into the creative scientific process. The narrator and sound quality are wonderful: good inflections. The narrator sometimes hesitates on words in a way that makes it sound like he's thinking or recalling, it's delightful.

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    • Timothy
    • 17/07/2004

    Challenging for a beginner

    For a thirty-something who hasn't studied much science since high-school biology, this was a bit challenging...but rewarding.

    Hawking delivers a summary of the popular theories on the origin of our planet, it's place in the universe, and everything we know and don't know about the laws that govern it.

    He does a good job of helping the layman understand what may be unfamiliar concepts (they were to me anyway) like the second law of thermodynamics, the event horizon, relativity and red shift by use of analogy and "for example" type descriptions. The best audience would seem to be a college science major who has a bit of a passion for astronomy or physics or the like.

    I found the reader's voice a bit monotone and I could often hear more excitement and animation in Hawking's words by re-reading them aloud in my own mind.

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    • Matt
    • 29/08/2003

    Elegance

    This book dives right in and tells a story that helped me understand how many of the 20th century advances in theoretical physics relate to my world/life.

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    • Darwin8u
    • 17/11/2014

    A Tease of Time & A Brief History of Science

    I know. I know. I both loved and hated this book. I definitely should never have read this book, cut the pages, opened the box, etc.. Somehow Stephen Hawking has written a book that gently fluffs the tail on Schrödinger's cat (or perhaps Schrödinger's cat is fluffing Dr. Hawking).

    Look, no doubt the guy is a genius and has a fantastic story (ALS, computer voice, nurses, Black Holes, strippers, movies, etc). My problem is the wussification of a large scientific narrative by one of Big “P” Physics primary scientists. Let someone else write a pop-GUT/Blackhole/Big Bang story. Let another writer do the pop-up Children's book with the scratch-n-sniff singularity, the rotating black hole, the pull-out universe.

    I want Dr. Hawking doing smart stuff. Let Bill Bryson write the summary science. But it is too late for me. I already crossed the damn event horizon. I've just become entangled with his book, so my "observer state" now corresponds to the damn book and the damn book review being both five stars and 1 stars is no longer a possibility; my reader state is entangled or linked now with my own review so that the "observation of the book review's state" and the "review's state" correspond with each other. I am finished.

    Hey, now to go see some movies about blackholes and wormholes and a-holes.

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    • Jochen Köcher
    • 22/11/2006

    Unbedingt Hörenswert

    Stephen Hawking nimmt einen mit dem Buch durch die Geschichte der Astronomie und Physik. Während das erste Drittel aus der Schulzeiten irgendwie bekannt war aber nie so strukturiert wiedergegeben wurde, so konnte man dem Teil sehr gut folgen. Das zweite Drittel konnte man durch gutes Mitdenken verfolgen. Das letzte Drittel war mir in den Schlüssen und Folgerungen zu kompliziert!Jeder, der eine Antwort auf die Fragen rund um Zeit bzw. GUT (Great Universal Theory) erwartet, sei gewarnt: Die Suche der Naturwissenschaftler ist nicht zu Ende und so kann auch Stephen Hawkings nur mit einer Bestandsaufnahme der offenen Fragen rund um das Thema schließen. Man bekommt den Eindruck, dass noch genausoviel Fragen offen sind, als je zuvor beantwortet wurden.Was erzählt wurde ist "mind-blowing", mit nettem Witz vorgetragen und beinhaltet viele Namen, die irgendwann mal Nobel-Preise gewonnen haben. Im letzten Drittel hätte man für die schwersten Bereiche etwas mehr Erklärungen geben dürfen, so dass ich "nur" 4 Sterne gegeben habe.Der Sprecher ist übrigends sehr gut, vielleicht manchmal etwas rasch, hält jedoch mit schönen Pausen zum "Mitkommen" inne.

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    • Gabi Feller
    • 17/10/2008

    Fantastic!

    Whoever is not a physicist and still wants to get in touch with the mysteriums connected to how the world came into being and how it works is absolutely right in chosing this book!It's well understandable (though not always as intuitive - but talking about these ideas should not be too easy after all, I reckon ;-)) and the reader takes the right pace reading through the chapters!Very good audio book indeed!

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    • Nate Barratt
    • 29/11/2018

    Legendary must-read, slap-dash recording

    It is almost comical how the narrator gets tripped up. But even so, I did not get distracted from the content of this wonderful book.

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