Will We Survive On Earth?

By (author) Stephen Hawking
Short description/annotation
Brief Answers, Big Questions: four new books celebrating the genius of Stephen Hawking''s brilliant posthumous work, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, with each one offering two electrifying essays from one of the greatest minds of our age.
Description

''Be brave, be curious, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done''

Will we survive on Earth?

Should we colonise space?

Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. In Will We Survive on Earth? the world-famous cosmologist and bestselling author of A Brief History of Time turns his attention to one of the most urgent issues for humankind and explores our options for survival.

''Effortlessly instructive, absorbing and witty'' Guardian


Brief Answers, Big Questions: this stunning paperback series offers electrifying essays from one of the greatest minds of our age, taken from the original text of the No. 1 bestselling Brief Answers to the Big Questions.

Biographical note
STEPHEN HAWKING was a brilliant theoretical physicist and is generally considered to have been one of the world''s greatest thinkers. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and is the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller and the Sunday Times bestseller Brief Answers to the Big Questions. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universes, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design and Black Holes: The BBC Reith Lectures. He died on 14 March, 2018.