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Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson ‘A
Short History of Nearly Everything’ is Bryson’s quest
to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to
the rise of civilization – how we got from there, being nothing
at all, to here, being us. His challenge is to take subjects that
normally bore and scare most of us, like geology, chemistry and
particle physics, and see if there isn’t some way to render
them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could
be interested in science. It’s not so much about what we know,
as how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre
of the earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were
6000 million ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? ‘Bryson takes the kind of mind-boggling subjects that bore the pants off the average reader - geology, chemistry, particle physics, DNA - and miraculously renders them not only comprehensible but engaging, even (God forbid) fun.’ The Good Book Guide ‘The more I read of A Short History of Nearly
Everything, the more I was convinced that Bill Bryson had achieved
exactly what he'd set out to do, and, moreover, that he'd done it
in stylish, efficient, colloquial and stunningly accurate prose...A
Short History of Nearly Everything seems destined to become a modern
classic of science writing.’ ‘A mammoth work on virtually every topic you can think of...Oh, and did I mention this book is funny?’ Bruce Tierney, Bookpage Bill Bryson was born in Iowa and now lives in New Hampshire. He is best known for his humorous travel writings. By
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