This book explains in a simple and passionate way the complex mechanisms by which a Universe arose from nothing (with all that entails) and the importance of that nothingness (the so-called dark matter) in the Universe we inhabit today. For his clarity of exposition and his narrative expertise, Krauss has often been compared to Carl Sagan and, like him, has collaborated in various television and online programs of popular science."We are living through a revolution in cosmology as extraordinary as the one initiated by Copernicus. This book is your brilliant essential guide" IAN MCEWAN[...] Here you have the triumph of physics over metaphysics, of reason and knowledge over stubbornness and myth explained in plain style.""If The Origin of Species was biology's deadliest blow to belief in the supernatural, we may end up seeing that A Universe from Nothing is its equivalent in the field of cosmology. The title means what it says. And what he says is devastating." RICHARD DAWKINS