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Hawking, a physicist who until retiring last year was the holder of sir isaac newtons chair as lucasian professor of mathematics at the university of cambridge, startled the publishing world in 1988 with his megaseller, a brief history of time. The publishers should know better by now, in compiling audio books, just reading very fast so that it can finish quickly why is the hurry does not work well. The cambridge lectures audiobook by stephen hawking. Stephen hawking and leonard mlodinow the grand design.
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