Write a book analysis about A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Book Analysis Guidelines
By Scott Stambach
Formatting:
❏ 12-point Times New Roman font
❏ Title page with just the title of your paper in 16-point font bold with your name below in
12-point font italics centered in the middle of your page.
❏ Double-spaced.
❏ Minimum 1,000 words.
❏ Stapled on the top left corner.
Key Elements: All of these elements should be easily found in your analysis.
❏ Who is the author and what is his/her general background? Why might they have written
this book?
❏ An explanation of the author’s thesis: What is the focus of this book? What was he trying
to say?
❏ What struck you or stood out in this book and why? Be as reflective and thoughtful as
you can. This is the soul of the paper.
❏ How does this book change/challenge the way you look at or think about some previously
held belief about the world? If it did not change or challenge anything for you, then
carefully explain why.
Final note: After reading 2,000 book reviews over the years, I have a well-honed B.S. detector.
Your grade on this assignment will, more than anything else, be based on the depth with which
you read the book and the sincerity with which you reflect upon i
First published in 1988 one of the most outstanding aspects of Hawking’s book, A Brief History of Time is his ability to explain cosmology and make the concepts easily graspable by using a simpleton’s language. Stephen Hawking, a British physicist at Cambridge University, explains about the nature of the universe in such a way that it combines the fantasies of the world from a child’s mind with the theories and perspectives of a scientist.
Stephen Hawking, the author of the book, is a physicist based at the Cambridge University’s Centre for Theoretical Cosmology as the director of research. He was born in the UK in the year 1942 and died in March 14 2018.