The Little Book of the Big Bang : A Cosmic Primer. With a Forew. by Martin Rees (1998. XIV, 181 p. w. 24 figs. 18,5 cm)

Craig Hogan explains what happened in the early days of the universe, why we think it's expanding (and how the expansion can look the same from everyplace at once), different ways the universe could end, and the meaning of such terms as "cosmic inflation," "cosmic background radiation," and "dark matter."