Highlight: Stephen Hawking's Titles Published by World Scientific

NEW TITLES BESTSELLERS E-CATALOGUES Dear Subscriber, We are pleased to introduce these important titles that may be of interest to you. From now till 30 March 2015, you can order your copy at a special 20% discount from our online bookstore. Enter the discount codeWSMAR20 at the Confirm Order Page to enjoy the offer. Do recommend these titles to your institutional library and colleagues. Stephen Hawking's Titles Published by World Scientific Hawking on the Big Bang and Black Holes by Stephen Hawking Discount Code: WSMAR20 | till 30 March 2015 softcover: US$50 / £33 / S$66 US$40 / £26.40 / S$52.80 hardcover: US$112 / £74 / S$148 US$89.60 / £59.20 / S$118.40 Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has made important theoretical contributions to gravitational theory and has played a major role in the development of cosmology and black hole physics.Hawking's early work, partly in collaboration with Roger Penrose, showed the significance of spacetime singularities for the big bang and black holes. His later work has been concerned with a deeper understanding of these two issues. The work required extensive use of the two great intellectual achievements of the first half of the Twentieth Century: general relativity and quantum mechanics; and these are reflected in the reprinted articles. Hawking's key contributions on black hole radiation and the no-boundary condition on the origin of the universe are included. FREE SAMPLE CHAPTER(S) Table of Contents (1,409 KB) Chapter 1: Introduction (997 KB)

Euclidean Quantum Gravity edited by G W Gibbons & S W Hawking (Cambridge) Discount Code: WSMAR20 | till 30 March 2015 softcover: US$58 / £38 / S$77 US$46.40 / £30.40 / S$61.60 hardcover: US$120 / £79 / S$158 US$96 / £63.20 / S$126.40 The Euclidean approach to Quantum Gravity was initiated almost 15 years ago in an attempt to understand the difficulties raised by the spacetime singularities of classical general relativity which arise in the gravitational collapse of stars to form black holes and the entire universe in the Big Bang. An important motivation was to develop an approach capable of dealing with the nonlinear, non-perturbative aspects of quantum gravity due to topologically non-trivial spacetimes. There are important links with a Riemannian geometry. Since its inception the theory has been applied to a number of important physical problems including the thermodynamic properties of black holes, quantum cosmology and the problem of the cosmological constant. It is currently at the centre of a great deal of interest.