"Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle" is a book by
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* [http://www.sjgarchive.org/library/timeArrow.html full contents]
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*Publisher: Harvard University Press
*ISBN 0-674-89198-8 (Hardback 1987)
*ISBN 0-674-89199-6 (Paperback 1988)
*Language: English
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