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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller
Physics and science for the common reader, this simplified exploration of a complex topic is engaging, interesting, educational and just plain fun.
Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.
But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the univers...
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