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A Briefer History of Time
Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
Science
A 2005 popular-science book that updates and simplifies Hawking's 1988 A Brief History of Time for general readers. It explains concepts such as quantum mechanics, string theory, and the Big Bang in more accessible language, while incorporating newer developments in cosmology.
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