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13.11.09.

Introducing Stephen Hawking now published!

Introducing Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide by J.P. McEvoy and Oscar is published this month by Icon.

Historically one of the series' bestselling titles, it brilliantly uses Introducing's trademark deft combination of words and comic-book style illustration to tell the story - and explain the notoriously difficuly science - of this colossus of modern cosomology and physics.

You'll struggle to find a better or more enjoyable introduction to Hawking anywhere - so buy your copy now!

‘An ideal introduction’ Independent
‘Astonishingly comprehensive … clearer than Hawking himself’ Focus

Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist with a cameo in The Simpsons on his CV, but outside his academic field his work is little understood. To the public he is a tragic figure – a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling A Brief History of Time, and yet confined to a wheelchair and almost completely paralysed.

Hawking’s major contribution to science has been to integrate the two great theories of 20th-century physics – Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. J.P. McEvoy and Oscar Zarate’s brilliant graphic guide explores Hawking’s life, the evolution of his work from his days as a student, and his breathtaking discoveries about where these fundamental laws break down or overlap, such as on the edge of a Black Hole or at the origin of the Universe itself.