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9780521099066 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1973, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity leads to two remarkable predictions: first, that the ultimate destiny of many massive stars is to undergo gravitational collapse and to disappear from view, leaving behind a 'black hole' in space; and secondly, that there will exist singularities in space-time itself.
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Product Description: This volume contains papers presented at the Nuffield Workshop on supersymmetry and its applications held at Cambridge in the summer of 1985 and attended by many of the leading experts in the field. In physical terms, supersymmetry is a symmetry or gauge invariance which connects bosons (particles with integer spin) with fermions (particles with half integer spin)...read more
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9780521307215 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1986, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This volume contains papers presented at the Nuffield Workshop on supersymmetry and its applications held at Cambridge in the summer of 1985 and attended by many of the leading experts in the field.
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9780521343121 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the publication of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Stephen Hawking and Werner Israel assembled a series of unique review papers by many of the world's foremost researchers in cosmology, relativity, and particle physics.
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9780521379762 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $128.00 | About this edition: To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the publication of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Stephen Hawking and Werner Israel assembled a series of unique review papers by many of the world's foremost researchers in cosmology, relativity, and particle physics.
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9780816147731, titled "Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes" | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, November 1, 1989), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally.
9780553053401 | Reissue edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, April 1, 1988), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Seeks to combine the two great theories of twentieth-century physics--Einstein's general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics--into a unification theory that will resolve the mysteries of the universe
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9780553346145 | Reissue edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 1, 1993), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Seeks to combine the two great theories of twentieth-century physics--Einstein's general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics--into a unification theory that will resolve the mysteries of the universe
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9781597770682 | Unabridged edition (Phoenix Books Inc, December 1, 2005), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9788474233742 | Lectorum Pubns, November 1, 1988, cover price $24.95
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9788420639710, titled "Historia del tiempo / Weather History" | Alianza Editorial Sa, February 1, 1990, cover price $18.95
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Product Description: The proceedings of a symposium on the formation and evolution of cosmic strings. Thirty of the top scientists in the field review recent progress in our understanding of the physical structure of cosmic strings, their formation processes in the early universe and how they might have evolved...read more
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9780521390071 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The proceedings of a symposium on the formation and evolution of cosmic strings.
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9780553077728 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, June 1, 1992, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Interviews with Hawking, his family, colleagues, and friends provide a close-up look at one of the world's greatest physicists, as well as a lucid explanation of his major theories
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Product Description: The Euclidean approach to quantum gravity was initiated almost 15 years ago in an attempt to understand the difficulties raised by the spacetime singularities of classical general relativity which arise in the gravitational collapse of stars to form black holes and the entire universe in the Big Bang...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9789810205157 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, August 1, 1993, cover price $113.00 | About this edition: The Euclidean approach to quantum gravity was initiated almost 15 years ago in an attempt to understand the difficulties raised by the spacetime singularities of classical general relativity which arise in the gravitational collapse of stars to form black holes and the entire universe in the Big Bang.
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9789810205164 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, May 1, 1993, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The Euclidean approach to quantum gravity was initiated almost 15 years ago in an attempt to understand the difficulties raised by the spacetime singularities of classical general relativity which arise in the gravitational collapse of stars to form black holes and the entire universe in the Big Bang.
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9789810210786 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, September 1, 1993, cover price $106.00 | About this edition: Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists of our time.
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9789810210793 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, September 1, 1993, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists of our time.
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9780553095234, titled "Black Holes and Baby Universes: And Other Essays" | Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 1, 1993, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays from the noted scientist includes personal reminiscences, a call for better science education, and explorations of the origins of the universe
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9780553472301 | Unabridged edition (Bantam Audio, October 1, 1993), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays includes personal reminiscences, a call for better science education, and explorations of the origins of the universe.
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9781558009868 | Dove Entertainment Inc, February 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This series of lectures, given at Cambridge University, introduces listeners to "the history of ideas about the Universe" as well as today's most important scientific theories about time, space, and the cosmos.
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9780553374117 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 1, 1994), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays from the noted scientist includes personal reminiscences, a call for better science education, and explorations of the origins of the universe
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9780716726487 | Cdr edition (W H Freeman & Co, December 1, 1994), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" took readers to distant galaxies, Black Holes and alternate dimensions - and across centuries of scientific thought - to confront questions about the origin and nature of the universe.
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9780716726326 | W H Freeman & Co, February 1, 1995, cover price $59.95
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Product Description: Stephen J. Hawking, James Gleick, Timothy Ferris and other top scientific minds talk about today's most important scientific theories. 4 cassettes.
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9780787104009 | Dove Entertainment Inc, August 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Stephen J.
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9781874166252 | Icon Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: This beginners guide introduces the complex ideas in Hawking's book, "A Brief History of Time".
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9780691026091 | Vhs edition (Princeton Univ Pr, April 1, 1996), cover price $390.00 | About this edition: Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
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A series of lectures by the renowned theoretical physicist reviews past ideas from Aristotle to Newton and Einstein's theories of gravity, the Big Bang, and black holes and explores the principles of quantum mechanics and time and space proposition.
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9780787106782 | Pap/cas edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, June 1, 1996), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A series of lectures by the renowned theoretical physicist reviews past ideas from Aristotle to Newton and Einstein's theories of gravity, the Big Bang, and black holes and explores the principles of quantum mechanics and time and space proposition
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9781565115156 | Abridged edition (Highbridge Co, September 5, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The theoretical physicist shares his latest thoughts on the nature of space and time in this anthology of selections from Princeton University Press.
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9781879557451 | Audio Scholar, July 1, 1996, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Essays: "Conceptual Revolution" by Paul Thagard "Cosmic Understanding" by Milton K.
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9780553103748 | Upd sub edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, November 1, 1996), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: An illustrated edition of the best-seller has been expanded to encompass the remarkable advances that have occurred in science and technology over the past eight years, with a new chapter on wormholes and time travel.
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9780553173253 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 1, 1997, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible?
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9780521563307 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: In this book, Roger Penrose presents a masterly summary of those areas of physics in which he feels there are major unsolved problems.
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9780465081998 | Basic Books, October 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Examines the efforts of Stephen Hawking and other scientists to understand the mysteries and origins of the universe
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9780465081981 | Basic Books, October 8, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Examines the efforts of Stephen Hawking and other scientists to understand the mysteries and origins of the universe
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9780553109535, titled "A Brief History of Time" | 10 anv edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 1, 1998), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: An anniversary edition of a now-classic survey of the origin and nature of the universe features a new introduction by the author and a new chapter on the possibility of time travel and 'wormholes' in space
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9789990063943, titled "A Brief History Of Time" | Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 1, 1998, cover price $0.02
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9781558001138, titled "A Brief History of Time" | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, October 1, 1988), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9781439503928, titled "A Brief History of Time" | 10 reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally.
9780613074049, titled "A Brief History of Time" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $30.60 | About this edition: An anniversary edition of a now-classic survey of the origin and nature of the universe features a new introduction by the author and a new chapter on the possibility of time travel and 'wormholes' in space
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9780553380163 | 10 anv edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 1, 1998), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An anniversary edition of a now-classic survey of the origin and nature of the universe features a new introduction by the author and a new chapter on the possibility of time travel and 'wormholes' in space
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