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This week the world's most famous scientist, Stephen Hawking, releases his latest work, The Grand Design, co-authored with the American physicist and best-selling writer Leong Mlodinow. The book ...

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This book is remarkable because it tells several stories in parallel, including histories in miniature of brain science, Canada, Quebec, Montreal and McGill University throughout the early-to-mid ...

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A San Francisco art show resurrects famed books that were lost to history What if you could now view Ernest Hemingway’s stolen novel and Lord Byron’s burned, scandalous memoirs?

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