My brief history autobiography for kids

My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his post-war London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity.

Pages: 127 Special features: many photographs from throughout his life Price - $10.48 or £8.99 ISBN: See more.

My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity.

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My Brief History

September 16, 2013

I feel like a terrible person giving this book two stars... I'm sure Mr. Hawking has far more important things to do, think about, and write about than himself... and it shows in the book. One wonders why he bothered or why he didn't hire a biographer to write a more concise story instead of making it a slim-volume autobiography. I'm sure, given the speed at which he works, this was still an impressive achievement, but as far as an informative biography of a fascinating person, it fails to achieve depth or really deliver very much actual information. In that it descends into brief recaps of some of his scientific theories is also a bit of a problem - sure, these are things he worked on but with only the briefest historical context and, given the amount of space provided, it's not well explained or diagrammed, unlike in his science books focused on his work (all of which are very good).

Again, I feel like I should give him a break under his circu

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My Brief History is an autobiography by Stephen Hawking.

My Brief History narrates Stephen Hawking's journey through life. It includes memories from his childhood in post-war London right until his years of worldwide praise and being a celebrity. This book is generously furnished with rarely seen photographs. This witty and concise account shows the readers a Hawking rarely known in his previous books. He was the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him 'Einstein', the fun-loving man who placed a bet with a colleague over the possibility of a black hole and the young father and husband struggling to gain a grip in the academic world.

Hawking discusses his unconventional childhood, his diagnosis with motor neurone disease when he was a 21 year old Ph.D. student, his ground-breaking work on quantum cosmology and his two marriages and the controversial circumstances surrounding their failing.

My Brief History is the first that he wrote completely on his own, by means of

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My Brief History

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'His tydlig förståelse , wit and determination are evident, his understand and good humour moving' - New Scientist

My 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. Writing 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 intel