Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen HawkingWide ranging, intellectually stimulating, passionately argued, and infused with his characteristic humour, 'Brief Answers to the Big Questions', the final book from one of the greatest minds in history, is a personal view on the challenges we face as a human race, and where we, as a planet, are heading next.

from hiring to firing

The South Wales Division was one of the three operating divisions of the Western Region

Having spent a lifetime watching birds

Shropshire and the Welsh Marches

Mercia and eventually England and Wales

Ivan Turgenev

But her luck

DNA analysis

the crafts involved in their planting and maintenance

with little more effort than opening a ready-meal

New friends

the author turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers