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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (26515)	4/28/2004 9:00:06 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

WR, Re: I'm in the midst of a 2 year struggle to get thru Hawking's "Brief History of Time". Not to brag, but I got through it in about 2 evenings. Why I say I'm not bragging is because I suspect I could have spent two years, and it still would have been way over my pay grade. A complementary book that I found far more accessible and fun to read is Joseph Silk's "A Short History of the Universe" amazon.com BLURB: Most cosmology books are woefully lacking in illustrations, which is odd considering how our information about the universe is visual. Not so A Short History of the Universe, which continues Scientific American Library's policy of providing clear, authoritative, beautifully illustrated surveys of important topics. Joseph Silk is one of the most influential cosmologists, and he leads us on a tour of the universe with enough pictures, graphs, and equations that we can actually get an idea of what astrophysicists think is going on. Nature calls this book "the best introduction to cosmology for the general public."