A BRIEFER HISTORY OF TIME
A Bantam Book

PUBLISHING HISTORY
Bantam hardcover edition published October 2005
Bantam trade paperback edition / May 2008

Published by
Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York

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Copyright © 2005 by Stephen Hawking

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