A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
5/5
Broadway Books 544 pages May 5, 2003
Bill Bryson takes his ultimate journey — into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. 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.
Jim's Review
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Bryson somehow makes particle physics, geology, and paleontology laugh-out-loud funny. Jim learned more about the universe from this one book than from years of burrowing through textbooks. It's like having the world's most entertaining professor explain everything you were too afraid to ask. A perfect gateway to loving science. Five worms — a masterpiece of popular science.
