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A brief history of time 1988, the universe in a nutshell 2001, a briefer history of time 2005, co. Yuval noah harari has a phd in history from the university of oxford and now lectures at the department of history, the hebrew university of jerusalem, specializing in world history. Or have people been lying, fibbing and just plain bullshtting since the beginning of time. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal, the nobel laureate. But for readers who have asked for a more accessible formulation of its. Geology as a science has a fascinating and controversial history.
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