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A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
by Hawking, Stephen W
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0553346148
- ISBN 13
- 9780553346145
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Bantam, NY, 1988, 1988. Paperback. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, softcover. VG. Blue pictorial wraps. From the Big Bang to Black Holes; Intro. by Carl Sagan. 198 pp. Hawking has overcome a crippling disease to become supernova of world physics. Unable to write, or even speak clearly, he is leaping beyond relativity, beyond quantum mechanics, beyond big bang to the "dance of geometry" that created the universe.
Synopsis
A Brief History of Time is a popular science book written by Stephen Hawking and first published by the Bantam Dell Publishing Group in 1988. It became a best-seller and has sold more than 9 million copies. It was also on the London Sunday Times best-seller list for more than four years. There is also a documentary by the same name, directed by Errol Morris and released in 1991. Unlike the book, the documentary is primarily a biography of Stephen Hawking.
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Details
- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27048b
- Title
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
- Author
- Hawking, Stephen W
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0553346148
- ISBN 13
- 9780553346145
- Publisher
- Bantam, NY, 1988
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, Maryland, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1988
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- Pictorial Wraps
- Pictorial wraps are color illustrated covers for paperback books. Preceding mass-market paperbacks, this format brought popular...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...