A BRIEF HISTORY OF MOTION From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next By Tom Standage ABOUT TIME A History of Civilization ... in more modern times, and the book’s pace picks up notably ...

How many people read the book from cover to cover remains a running ... understood it is also a matter of debate. But “A Brief History of Time” launched Hawking, who died Wednesday at 76 ...

And the most famous part of that work was his book A Brief History Of Time, which took on the apparently impossible text of condensing the history, past and present of our entire universe into a ...

Physicist Stephen Hawking entered the record books Thursday when his A Brief History of Time outlasted any other book on the British bestseller list. Hawking received a certificate from the ...