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L IBRARY OF C ONGRESS C ATALOGING-IN- P UBLICATION D ATA
Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)
A brief history of time / Stephen Hawking.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-553-38016-3 (pbk.)—ISBN 978-0-553-89692-3 (ebook)
Cosmology. I. Title.
QB981.H377 1998
523.1—dc21 98-21875

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