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" The system of the world / "
Neal Stephenson
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BL
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713693
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b535882
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| Main Entry
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Stephenson, Neal
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The system of the world /\ Neal Stephenson
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| Edition Statement
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1st Harper Perennial ed
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New York :: Harper Perennial,, ©2005
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| Series Statement
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The Baroque cycle ;; v. 3
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xix, 892 pages ;; 21 cm
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0060750863
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: 9780060750862
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Includes 16 p. "P.S." with extras: About the author ; About the book ; and Read on
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| Abstract
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In the wake of a power struggle between the throne-seeking Tories and Whigs in early eighteenth-century England, Daniel Waterhouse teams up with Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group that uses time bombs to kill Natural Philosophers
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Newton, Isaac,1642-1727
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Counterfeiters, Fiction
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Criminals, Fiction
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Kings and rulers-- Succession, Fiction
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Scientists-- Crimes against, Fiction
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Great Britain, History, Anne, 1702-1714, Fiction
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