Book about cosmology from one of the best czech popularizator of science. Book was published at 1997, but I read it in year 2005, so it's not so deprecated. More important is that it is well written and author is capable to explain very difficult topics in very simple words. Through reading this book I evoked my great interest and passion for this area and books about modern physics that I read started to grow since this one. http://www.astro.cz/~grygar/knihy.htm