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A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking
Hawking reviews the great theories of the cosmos and all the puzzles, paradoxes, and contradictions still unresolved. He explains Galileo's and Newton's discoveries and takes the reader through Einstein's general theory of relativity and on to quantum mechanics. Finally, he explores the worldwide effort to combine the two into a single quantum ...
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The Lost Colony
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Eoin Colfer
After his Internet research proves that fairies, sprites, leprechauns, and trolls really do exist, 12-year-old criminal genius Artemis Fowl sets out to steal their vast treasure of gold. Knowing that he needs help to make his plan a success, Artemis kidnaps a feisty leprechaun named Holly Short and soon finds himself involved in a major battle ...
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Brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes
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S. W. Hawking
Hawking reviews the great theories of the cosmos and all the puzzles, paradoxes, and contradictions still unresolved. He explains Galileo's and Newton's discoveries and takes the reader through Einstein's general theory of relativity and on to quantum mechanics. Finally, he explores the worldwide effort to combine the two into a single quantum ...
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Being and time
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Dr. Martin Heidegger
"What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism--as well as existentialism and much of postmodern thought--"Being and Time" forever ...
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Six not-so-easy pieces : Einstein's relativity, symmetry and space-time.
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Richard P. Feynman
"Want to really understand why time slows, mass increases, and length contracts as something approaches light speed, why space has to be curved and why it is not only impossible to predict the future, but 'actually there is no fortune teller who even tell us the present?'" ("Washington Post Book World"). "In these lectures, everything you've ever ...
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Dingoes at Dinnertime
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Mary Pope Osborne
Via their magic tree house Jack and Annie travel to Australia where they rescue koalas, kangaroos, and other animals from a wildfire.
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Timequake
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Kurt Vonnegut
A book of metafiction by the celebrated American novelist. In the year 2001, a glitch in the space-time continuum occurs, making everybody repeat everything that had been done since 1991.
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E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
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David Bodanis
This accessible book chronicles the life, times, and impact of Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity, relating both the history and the science behind this equation to all levels of scientific aptitude.
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Half Magic
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Edward Eager
Siblings Jane, Mark, Katherine, and Martha are enduring a dull summer under the watchful eye of their dislikable babysitter Miss Bick. Everything changes however, when Jane happens upon a magical coin--one that has the ability to grant exactly half of whatever the wisher requests. It takes the siblings a few tries to understand how to harness this ...
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Black
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Ted Dekker
Fleeing assailants through alleyways late one night, Thomas Hunter escapes to the roof of an industrial building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head and his world goes black. This groundbreaking trilogy will be the fiction publishing event of 2004. "Black" is unleashed in February, followed by "Red" this May, and concluding with ...
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Abarat
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Clive Barker
Daylight battles darkness in the most literal sense in film director Clive (HELLRAISER) Barker's sequel to his sorcery novel, ABARAT. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, means to kill heroine Candy Quackenbush (formerly of Chickentown, Minnesota) and envelop the islands of Abarat in a Permanent Midnight. The Day-world and the Night-world ...
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Interworld
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Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves
This "New York Times"-bestselling tale of magic, science, bravery, and adventure by master storyteller Gaiman and Emmy-winning writer Reaves is now in paperback. Joey Harker has always had a terrible sense of direction. One day he gets lost in his own town and walks right out of his universe.
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Acceptable Time
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Madeleine L'Engle
Polly's visit to her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious stangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
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Hidden Dimension
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Edward Twitchell Hall
Hall examines the various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. The Hidden Dimension demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal and business relations, cross-cultural exchanges, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal. Illustrated.
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
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Leonard Susskind
"The Black Hole War" is the thrilling story of Susskind's effort to reconcile Stephen Hawking's revolutionary theories of black holes with his own sense of reality--an effort that would eventually result in Hawking admitting he was wrong.
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The Illustrated a Brief History of Time
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S. W. Hawking
A cutting-edge book when it was first published in 1988, "A Brief History of Time" has garnered worldwide acclaim and unprecedented popularity. This magnificent new large-format edition has been updated and enriched with a new Introduction and a new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel, and is lavishly illustrated with more than 240 full-color ...
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Secret of the Indian
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Lynne Reid Banks
The third entry in the "Indian in the Cupboard" series begins exactly where "The Return of the Indian" ends. In this story, Omri and Patrick continue their adventures, and Patrick finds a way to travel through time back to the Wild West. When Patrick returns to the present, he brings Ruby Lee, cowboy Boone's girlfriend, back with him. ...
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Time's Eye
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Stephen Baxter
In 2037, aliens known as the "Firstborn" fracture the nature of spacetime on Earth. After the so-called "Discontinuity," people from a variety of places and times must somehow create a new society. The action leads up to a meeting in the city of Babylon between the armies of Alexander the Great, joined by 19th-century British troops and a trio of ...
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Winter of the Ice Wizard
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Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca (Illustrator)
This is the 32nd book in the Magic Tree House series, in which eight-year-old Jack and his seven-year-old sister Annie use a tree house as a time machine. Merlin the magician has vanished, and Jack and Annie and pals Teddy and Kathleen journey in the Magic Tree House to an icy, snowy realm to brave ferocious wolves and savage storms in a quest ...
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Merchant of Death
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D J MacHale
Fans of the "New York Times" bestselling series can join Bobby Pendragon once again as he travels through space and time solving interdimensional conflict wherever he encounters it. Readers are taken back to the beginning in the first two installments of the series, now available for the first time in hardcover editions.
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The Pilgrims of Rayne
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D J MacHale
In this installment of the #1 "New York Times" bestselling series Bobby is sent to Ibara, a confounding territory that looks like paradise. However, Bobby is put on the path that will ultimately lead to the final showdown between himself and Saint Dane.
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Silver on the Tree
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Susan Cooper
The final book in five book the "Dark is Rising" series that also includes "Over Sea, Under Stone," "The Dark is Rising," "Greenwitch," and "The Grey King." Will Stanton, Bran, and the Drew siblings search for the crystal sword that will help them vanquish the forces of evil knows as the Dark.
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
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Timothy Ferris
This informaive book seeks to comprehend the enormities of cosmic space and time and how this understanding has shaped religion, politics, and philosophy.
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Battle for the Castle
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Elizabeth Winthrop
The long-awaited companion to the bestselling and award-winning The Castle in the Attic. As William turns 12, his former housekeeper sends him a magic token that once again takes him--and this time, Jason--back to Sir Simon's castle in the Middle Ages. There they face a dangerous army of rats in the final battle for the castle.
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A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
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Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan, writer and gardener, builds himself a writing studio behind his house and chronicles the project in detail--with digressions on Roman architecture, Thoreau, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among other things.
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