{"product_id":"my-brief-history","title":"Stephen (University of Cambridg Hawking: My Brief History [2013] hardback","description":"Stephen Hawking dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. In My Brief History, the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turned his gaze inwards, looking - for the first and only time in print - at his own life and intellectual evolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his post-war London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Lavishly illustrated with rarely seen photographs, this concise, witty and candid account introduces readers 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 black hole; and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of academia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting with characteristic humility and humour, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of motor neurone disease aged twenty-one. Tracing his development as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onwards through numerous intellectual breakthroughs, and talks about the genesis of his masterpiece A Brief History of Time - one of the iconic books of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClear-eyed, intimate and wise, My Brief History opens a window for the rest of us into Hawking's personal cosmos.","brand":"Hawking, Stephen (University Of Cambridg","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48888853954899,"sku":"XV80593072523","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":52556906561875,"sku":"9780593072523","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/hawking-stephen-university-of-cambridg-stephen-university-of-cambridg-hawking-my-brief-history-2013-hardback-1210602034.jpg?v=1765310239","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/my-brief-history","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}