AShortHistoryofNearlyEverything

About the Book Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can’t contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his 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. The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, revealing the world in a way most of us have never seen it before. CONTENTS Cover About the Book Title Page Dedication Acknowledgements Map Introduction I: Lost in the Cosmos 1. How to Build a Universe 2. Welcome to the Solar System 3. The Reverend Evans’s Universe II: The Size of the Earth 4. The Measure of Things 5. The Stone-Breakers 6. Science Red in Tooth and Claw 7. Elemental Matters III: A New Age Dawns 8. Einstein’s Universe 9. The Mighty Atom 10. Getting the Lead Out 11. Muster Mark’s Quarks 12. The Earth Moves IV: Dangerous Planet 13. Bang! 14. The Fire Below 15. Dangerous Beauty V: Life Itself 16. Lonely Planet 17. Into the Troposphere 18. The Bounding Main 19. The Rise of Life 20. Small World 21. Li......