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Found 2 from your keywords: subject="Astrophysics"
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Death by black hole and other cosmic quandaries
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Tyson, Neil deGrasse

According to astrophysicist Tyson, director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium, size does matter when it comes to black holes, although the chances of your surviving the encounter aren't good in any case. Tyson takes readers on an exciting journey from Earth's hot springs, where extremophiles flourish in hellish conditions, to the frozen, desolate stretches of the Oort Cloud and the universe…

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978 0393350388
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523.8 TYS d
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My brief history: Stephen Hawking
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Hawking, Stephen

Recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age 21. Tracing his progress as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous i…

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978 0 345 53528 3
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523.1 HAW m