A Brief History of Time / UK / Japan / USA / 1991 According to the back cover of Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, the master theoretical physicist wrote his now famous book for “nonscientists everywhere.” Well, as someone who is both a nonscientist—in fact, as an English major, I think I qualify for a PhD in nonscience—and lives in the all-encompassing everywhere, I found the uncommonly thin tome a tad on the confusing side. A tad. Not that I’m doggedly oblivious to the world of science—among other things, I found Hawking’s personal and historical anecdotes far more informative and memorable than the eye-blearing diagrams and letter-number equations—I just don’t understand the jargon, which seems to snowball throughout the book into chapter upon chapter of incomprehensible terminology. So what could be more welcomed...
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