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Oct 6, 2024 8:29 PM

Author:John Gribbin

The Universe

John Gribbin's The Universe: A Biography explores the story of our cosmos, from the mystery of its origins to how scientists think it might end.

How did the universe grow from a tiny fireball to its present size?

Where did life on earth come from?

How do planets form?

How will the universe end?

And how do we even know all this anyway?

John Gribbin, one of Britain's most popular writers about science and the people who made it happen, has decided to create a biography of the greatest subject of all: the universe itself, from beginning to end (and beyond).

From the Big Bang 14 billion years ago, the formation of stars and galaxies and the first stirrings of life, to the latest thinking on dark matter and a theory of everything - and beyond to the future possibility of a Big Crunch or a Big Rip - this is the life history of the entire world around us.

'If you really want to know about the greatest story there is, then this is the book to read' - Independent on Sunday

'As clear an account of current thinking on the subject as we are likely to get' - Daily Telegraph

'One of Britain's best and most prolific science writers' - Sunday Telegraph

'The master of popular science writing' - Sunday Times

Reviews

Paul's books will inspire even the most reluctant among us.

—— Darina Allen

Paul Waddington fills in the grey areas, without any po-faced preaching, on the benefits, making us rethink our lifestyle choices in a fun way.

—— The Lady

Honest and witty . .. this guidebook will help you to choose to do the best you can in your own circumstances. I learnt a lot from it.

—— Refresh

A fascinating read... you will pick up some valuable tips to help you understand, appreciate and connect with the men in your life.

—— Helen Fisher, author of Why Him? Why Her?

'It deserves to sell as many copies as there are protons in the full stop that ends this review (at least 500,000,000,000).'

—— Craig Brown , Mail on Sunday

'The very book I have been looking for most of my life...Trunkloads of information, amazing stories and extraordinary personalities'

—— Christopher Matthew , Daily Mail

'The amount of ground covered is truly impressive...it's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science'

—— John Waller , Guardian

As he delights in each new discovery, so do we

—— Metro Scotland

A brave and compelling book

—— Simon Shaw , Mail on Sunday

A delightful read that will stimulate the scientist inside everyone

—— Bluesci

This slender, elegantly written memoir by a female surgeon, Gabriel Weston, is a fascinating, no holds barred account of life in the operating theatre

—— Independent

Through this insightful book, Weston succeeds superbly in communicating the fascinating brutal reality of a surgeon's life

—— Ian Critchley , Daily Telegraph

Gabriel Weston's story succeeds better than any I have known...more riveting and thought-provoking than any fiction

—— The Lady, Susan Hill

Glinting like a tray of instruments, her prose is satisfyingly precise

—— Victoria Segal , The Guardian

A curiously thrilling read, written with an elegance heightened by its clarity and economy

—— Elizabeth Day , Observer

A valuable and unflinching account, since it so clearly tells the truth

—— Christopher Hart , The Sunday Times

This book is mesmerising

—— William Leith , Scotsman

Her description of the struggle to remain individual and hence moral is her real achievement. This, to me, is what female writing has to do, and she does it with style and humour and beauty

—— Rachel Cusk

Richard Dawkin's new book... gives the fact-rejecters their just deserts

—— Daily Telegraph

The book is full of evidence, some familiar and some new. Its case is presented in a manner succinct, clear and sometimes vivid

—— Daily Telegraph

No other book currently available approaches Dawkin's comprehensive yet accessible treatment of the extraordinarily diverse and massive body of data that drives ineluctably to the same conclusion

—— National Center for Science Education

The Greatest Show on Earth is a lucid, thorough and often exciting survey of evolution and takes in rats' teeth, dogs, bacteria, the so-called missing link, crustaceans, giraffe anatomy, hummingbirds, chimpanzees, enzymes - you name it. It is informed in nearly every paragraph by Mr. Dawkins's irrepressible enthusiasm

—— Sarah Lyall , New York Times

The Greatest Show on Earth... is essential reading. I would currently rate it... as the best overall book on the evidence for Evolution

—— Marc E. Miquel , SCOPE

This is a magnificent book of wonderstanding: Richard Dawkins combines an artist's wonder at the virtuosity of nature with a scientist's understanding of how it comes to be

—— Matt Ridley, author of "Nature via Nurture"
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