I am of the generation of children who watched the show dazzled the Bogdanov brothers. It is in memory of those hours that I wanted to read their book, without expectations and away from controversy. Certainly this is not a treatise on astronomy that will leave a lasting impression, but it's a good introduction to the history of the "discovery" of the big bang, and brushed in broad strokes a good history of the last hundred years research in cosmology. The tone is television and it is built as a transmission script, with media hype and false surprise. I have therefore found the atmosphere I wanted. For a popular work, though it lacks a glossary that would be very useful to those who know nothing about this field. Regarding sometimes violent reactions to this word, God, who comes from time, and seems to scare some so terribly, I have nothing to say because every word in this debate is unnecessary, part our company (sure she is more modern than the other) who have forgotten that any progress in science entails an ontological reflection, philosophical and metaphysical without which no problem would never really Treaty. That is why for example Bergson incorporated all the new states of research in his thought, and Pauli created bridges between his work in quantum physics and what Jung discovered on the human psyche. Therefore nothing too outrageous in the extensions proposed by Bogdanov brothers.
