Battle of the Big Bang: the new tales of our cosmic origins

Preface : before our first memory

The beginning : cosmology from Thales to Hawking

The multiverse and the ultimate free lunch

Hawking's U-Turn and a universe from nothing

String theories and colliding branes

The big bounce

Déjà vu andthe cyclic cosmos

Born from a Black Hole

Speeds of light

Holograms and missing dimensions

Can the universe create itself? Science of religion, religion of science

The end of the beginning.