Title	The Universe in a Nutshell
Author	Stephen Hawking
ISBN	055380202X
Notes	Think of this book as a quick primer of theoretical physics, but take care -- you may need a few years of calculus, chemistry, and physics to grasp this dense little book. Hawking does a wonderful job of making this obscure field accessible to the moderately-educated layperson, using metaphors and illustrations you won't find in any academic treatise on black holes, superstrings, the Grand Unified Theory, p-branes, and a host of other wacky science crap. If you love watching Star Trek just so you can point out the inconsistencies in their rendering of a space ship traveling at Warp 6 and the space-time paradoxes it presents, this is the book for you!