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100 _aBryson, Bill
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245 _aA short history of nearly everything
260 _c2004
_bPenguin Random House
_aLondon
300 _a666 p.
520 _aBill 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. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. As a result, A Short History of Nearly Everything reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/326805/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-by-bill-bryson/9781784161859
650 _aScience - History - Popular works
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650 _aDiscoveries in science - Popular works
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650 _aNatural history - Popular works
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650 _aHuman evolution - Popular works
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650 _aCivilization - History
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