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A lot of information in this ( )

A great book by a great writer; but it's great only if you have an excellent layman's knowledge of science. The casual science reader will not be able to understand it, and a professional scientist may already know everything Barrow has to say. ( )

I was afraid this would just be a too-lightly edited second edition of _Theories of Everything_ (1992, same subtitle), and it is. It is annoying that the genuinely new portions are not typographically differentiated from the old. Also annoying is the surfeit of theological references. A lot of good stuff, needlessly contaminated.