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A Short History of Nearly Everything

Authors:: Bill Bryson (author) and Neil Gower (illustrator)
Language:: English
Original language:: English
Publisher:: Black Swan
Category:: Science
Publication year:: 2004
Original publication year:: 2003
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Acknowledgments

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 Life Goes On

22 Goodbye to All That

23 The Richness of Being

24 Cells

25 Darwin's Singular Notion

26 The Stuff of Life

VI: The Road to Us

27 Ice Time

28 The Mysterious Biped

29 The Restless Ape

30 Goodbye

Notes

Bibliography

Index