The First Three Minutes

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Hawking singled out Weinberg's cosmology book as a very good existing book about the early universe in the acknowledgments to A Brief History of Time.

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The reception section quotes Hawking's acknowledgments to A Brief History of Time, where he describes The First Three Minutes as one of the very good books about the early universe.