Astrophysics for people in a hurry / Neil deGrasse Tyson.
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? Today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and...
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New York, NY ; London :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2017]
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