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“What I really liked about A Short History of Nearly Everything is that it gives an excellent account of a lot of the personalities and the interconnectedness of important discoveries in cosmology and elsewhere. He does such a great job of bringing together our understanding of cosmology, evolution, paleontology, and geology in a very, very fluid way.” Read more...
David Goldberg, Physicist
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The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
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Stonehenge Decoded
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