copyright 1993; Bantam Books publisher, New York; softbound; very good condition with unmarked, clean pages.
 
Description -
These thirteen essays and one remarkable extended interview broadcast over the BBC on Christmas day 1992 range from the autobiographical to the purely scientific.  Building on his earlier work, Stephen Hawking discusses imaginary time, how black holes can give birth to baby universes, and scientists' efforts to find a complete unified theory that would predict everything in the universe, a concept that he believes will come to seem as natural to the next generation as the idea that the world is round.
 
With the great unfolding mysteries of the universe as a backdrop...