I love listening to Charles Liu on Star Talk so I snagged this advance copy of The Cosmos Explained. Charles is an amazing educator who has a gift for explaining complex ideas about the possible creation and end of our universe. What happened in those first moments of the big bang when the rules of physics did not apply? How did the basic building blocks of matter come into being and what could be the future end of everything?

Charles' text and simple graphics explain these concepts in a book for all ages. This is a must to have on hand when you get those hard questions about why the universe is the way it is or what the cosmic microwave background is.