A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
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Recommended by 16 sources and appears in Nonfiction, Best Science Books, and Art History.
In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand?and, if possible, answer?the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To ...
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