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Esta coleccion nacio como una hermana mayor de la « Serie general con el fin de acoger los « grandes temas y los « grandes libros (que muchas veces han sido tambien libros grandes). Se inicio en 1986 con Los descubridores, de Daniel J. Boorstin (primer titulo de una trilogia que se completaria con Los creadores y Los pensadores, y uno de los libros mas vendidos de la editorial) y ha seguido publicandose hasta hoy con titulos como Carlos V y sus banqueros (edicion completa) de Ramon Carande; El conde duque de Olivares, de John Elliott; Diarios completos, de Manuel Azana; Federico Garcia Lorca, de lan Gibson; Historia de Espana, de Joseph Perez; Historia de Espana (3 vols.), de Ferran Soldevila; Historia de Espana (14 vols.), dirigida por John Lynch; Historia de America Latina (16 vols.), dirigida por Leslie Bethell; Historia del siglo XX, de Eric J. Hobsbawm; Los Origenes de la Inquisicion espanola, de B. Netanyahu; La riqueza y la pobreza de las naciones, de David S. Landes, etcetera. Escrita por uno de los mayores fisicos de nuestro siglo, es una aportacion de primer orden al pensamiento cientifico y a la cultura universal. Hawking nos explica con asombrosa sencillez las leyes que desvelan la compleja danza geometrica creadora del mundo y de la vida.

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Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford, England on January 8, 1942. He received a first class honors degree in natural science from Oxford University and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He was a theoretical physicist and has held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University from 1982 until his death. In 1974, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific organization.

In 1963, he learned he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neuromuscular wasting disease also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The disease confined him to a wheelchair and reduced his bodily control to the flexing of a finger and voluntary eye movements, but left his mental faculties untouched. He became a leader in exploring gravity and the properties of black holes.

He wrote numerous books including A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Black Holes and Baby Universes, On the Shoulders of Giants, A Briefer History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design, and Brief Answers to the Big Questions. In 1982, he was named a commander of the British Empire. A film about his life, The Theory of Everything, was released in 2014 and was based on his first wife Jane Hawking's book Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen. He died on March 14, 2018 at the age of 76.

(Bowker Author Biography)