Many Worlds in One
by Alex Vilenkin | 
The Five Ages of the Universe
by Fred Adams | 
The Book of Universes
by John D. Barrow |
In Search of the Big Bang
by John Gribbin |
Endless Universe
by Paul J. Steinhardt | 
Alpha and Omega
by Charles Seife |
The Life of the Cosmos
by Lee Smolin | 
How the Universe Got Its Spots
by Janna Levin |
Perfect Symmetry
by Heinz R. Pagels | 
The Hidden Reality
by Brian Greene | 
Just Six Numbers
by Martin Rees | 
Cycles of Time
by Roger Penrose | 
A Universe from Nothing
by Lawrence M. Krauss |
The Last Three Minutes
by Paul Davies | 
The First Three Minutes
by Steven Weinberg | 
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
by Neil deGrasse Tyson |
The Hidden Life of Trees
by Peter Wohlleben |
Mycelium Running
by Paul Stamets | 
This Phenomenal Life
by Misha Blaise | 
Parasite Rex
by Carl Zimmer |
This is the compelling, first-hand account of Alan Guth's paradigm-breaking discovery of the origins of the universe--and of his dramatic rise from young researcher to physics superstar. Guth's startling theory--widely regarded as one of the most important contributions to science during the twentieth century--states that the big bang was set into motion by a period of hyper-rapid "inflation," lasting only a billion-trillion-billionth of a second. The Inflationary Universe is the passionate story of one leading scientist's effort to look behind the cosmic veil and explain how the universe began.