Origins #1 By Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith (2004)

This book is very scientific, so it is a hard read, but still very interesting. DeGrasse and Tyson wrote this book to explain "fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution." So as you can see, the book is about the creation of the cosmos from the Big Bang and how space has evolved since then. As far as I can tell, the book never discusses the controversial topic of human evolution; it focuses only on the cosmos. So far, although I still haven't passed the explanation of the Big Bang, the authors are doing a very good job of achieving their purpose. Unlike other science books that I have started but have never brought myself to finish, "Origins" does a good job of putting complicated explanations into layman's terms. The authors also do a good job of keeping these terms not so dummed down that readers feel insulted by the book's implications of the reader's stupidity. The writing is not boring either; not at all like a text book. The authors keep the material interesting and humerus, while also very educational.