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It was also a finalist for the national book critics circle award and won the ocm bocas prize for caribbean literature for fiction, the anisfieldwolf book award for fiction, and the minnesota book award. The best was wilbers quadrant that truly does explain so much. Join one of the greatest contemporary philosophers on a breathtaking tour of time and the kosmosfrom the big bang right up to the eve of the twentyfirst century. What made hawkings a brief history of time so immensely.

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