8.5 x 5.5 0.75 In book CD Room Collector s Edition with Audiobook read by the Author STEPHEN W. HAWKING is widely believed to be one of the worlds greatest minds a brilliant theoretical physicist whose work helped to reconfigure models of the universe and to redefine whats in it. Imagine sitting in a room listening to Hawking discuss these achievements and place them in historical context. It would be like hearing Christopher Columbus tell of his journeys to the New World. This book approaches that. In The Theory of Everything, Hawking presents a series of seven lectures in which he lays out, perhaps more clearly and concisely than ever, the history of the universe as we know it. These essays capture not only the brilliance of Hawkings mind but his characteristic wit as well.