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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780316013338 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
523.12 |
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SUS |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Susskind, Leonard |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The cosmic landscape : string theory and the illusion of intelligent design |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Back Bay Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2006. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii,403 p. ; |
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ill., |
| Dimensions |
21 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
18.99 |
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$ |
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89.00 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Anthropic Principle - a hypothetical principle that holds that the universe is fine-tuned so that we can be here to observe it. Many physicists have worried that embracing the Anthropic Principle will spell an end to scientific progress, but in The Cosmic Landscape, Leonard Susskind shows how string theory, rather than reaching a dead end, has led to a vastly expanded concept of the universe, in which the contentious principle makes perfect sense |
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Astrophysics |
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Cosmogony |
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intelligent design |
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String models |
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Books |