by G W Gibbons, E P S Shellard and S J Rankin (eds), Cambridge University Press. Hardback ISBN 0521820812, £40 ($60).
Stephen Hawking’s 60th birthday was celebrated in Cambridge, UK, with a meeting attended by many well-known theoretical physicists. This volume is based on lectures given at the meeting. It begins with talks by Martin Rees, James Hartle, Roger Penrose, Kip Thorne and Hawking himself given at a public symposium that formed part of the conference. Subsequent chapters cover advanced presentations on space-time singularities, black holes, Hawking radiation, quantum gravity, M-theory, cosmology and quantum cosmology.
