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A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

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  About the Author:- Stephen Hawking Stephen William Hawking  was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford, England. Stephen Hawking's ability to make science understandable and compelling to a lay audience was established with the publication of his first book, A Brief History of Time, which has sold nearly 10 million copies in 40 languages. About:- A Brief History of Time We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the sunlight that generates the sunlight that makes life possible.  The gravity that glues us to an earth that would otherwise send us turning off into space, or to the atoms of which we are made whose strength we fundamentally count. Except for children ( who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us expend much time wondering why personality is the way it is; where the cosmos came from, or where it was always here.  If time will one day flow backward and effects precede causes; or whether there are maximum limits to what...

The Alchemist 30th Anniversary Edition

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Paulo Coelho  is the author of " The Alchemist ", he was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Being the author of 30 books that have sold over 320 million copies in 170 countries, he has become one of the most widely read authors in the world today. The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had bought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus. The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty.   He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the narcissus.  But this was not how the author of the book ended the story.  He said that when  Narcissus  died, the goddess of the forest appeared and found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake of salty tears.  "Why do you weep?" the goddesses asked.  "I weep for Narc...