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Natural Disasters in a Global Environment
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The Dobsonian Telescope: A Practical Manual for Building Large Aperture Telescopes
by David Kriege and Richard Berry
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How to Build a Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel
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Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, & Space-Time (Helix Book)
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Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
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The Grand Design
by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
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