A Short History Of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson set out to understand how anyone worked out the age of the Earth, the size of an atom or the origin of the universe, and wrote down what he learned. The book runs from the Big Bang to the appearance of human civilisation, taking in cosmology, geology, chemistry, physics and evolution along the way. Bryson keeps the scientists in view as much as the science, so discoveries arrive with the rivalries, accidents and stubbornness that produced them. How it reads: • Covers the physical sciences without assuming prior study • Biography and anecdote used to carry difficult explanations • Chapters that can be read in isolation or straight through • Regularly named among the more approachable popular science titles Aimed at general readers, students and anyone curious about how scientific knowledge was actually assembled. On the shelves at Boipoka.