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Author

Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018, author.

Title Brief answers to the big questions / Stephen Hawking.

Publication Info.	New York : Bantam Books, [2018]
	�2018

Copies

Location	Pub Note	Copy No.	Status
Bourbonnais PL Adult Non Fiction - BDBB-2	500 HAW		AVAILABLE
Bradley PL Adult Non-Fiction - BRBB-2	SCIENCE PHYSICS Hawking		AVAILABLE
Byron PL Adult Non Fiction - BYLY-14	500 HAW		AVAILABLE
Cherry Valley PLD Adult Non-Fiction - CHVY-11	200 HAW		AVAILABLE
Clinton Township PL Stacks - CTPY-12	500 HAW		AVAILABLE
DeKalb PL Adult Non-Fiction - DKLY-12	500 HAW		AVAILABLE
East Dubuque DL Stacks - EDLY-13	500 HAW		AVAILABLE
East Moline PL Adult Non-Fiction - EMPG-6	500 HAW		AVAILABLE
Ella Johnson Memorial PL Stacks - EJMY-11	500 HAW		AVAILABLE
Flagg-Rochelle PL Adult Non Fiction - FRPY-12	500 HAW		AVAILABLE

Edition	First U.S. edition.
Description	xxiii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
	text txt rdacontent
	unmediated n rdamedia
	volume nc rdacarrier
Note	Includes index.
Contents	Why we must ask the big questions -- Is there a God? -- How did it all begin? -- Is there other intelligent life in the universe? -- Can we predict the future? -- What is inside a black hole? -- Is time travel possible? -- Will we survive on Earth? -- Should we colonise space? -- Will artificial intelligence outsmart us? -- How do we shape the future?
Summary	Offers the renowned scientist's final thoughts on using science to address the most important challenges facing humanity.
Subject	Science -- Miscellanea.
	SCIENCE / Cosmology.
	SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
Added Author	Redmayne, Eddie, 1982- writer of foreword.
	Thorne, Kip S., writer of introduction.
	Hawking, Lucy, writer of afterword.
ISBN	9781984819192
	1984819194