Publisher's Summary 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 spacабьжшe 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 аврлъof Time is Hawking's classic introduction to today's most important scientific ideas about the cosmos.