The Whole Shebang. A State of the Universe(s) Report

London England: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Very Good. 1997. 1st Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo Paperback Paperback. The Whole Shebang.We are living in a golden age of cosmology, the science of the universe as a whole. What is said of the seventeeth century in the study of our solar system, or of the early twentieth century in quantum mechanics, will be said of cosmology in our own time - that never before in history was so much about one field of science learned so quickly by so few. Where the author's bestseller Coming of Age in the Milky Way brilliantly told the story of Western man's view of the universe from Plato and Aristotle to Einstein and Hawking, his new book, equally lucidly, accessbly and elegantly written, provides a fascinating report on the recent history and current state of cosmology. The book takes the reader through all the central iassues and debates, and the extraordinary variety of breakthroughs of recent years, as cosmology has seized front-page headlines with remarkable frequency, from the significance of evidence supporting the big bang, to the claims that Mars was once home to life. Ferris provides a succinct and entirely non-mathematical background to the news stories, as well as to the ideas of the leading scientists. 393 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .