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Bill Bryson is one of the world’s most belovedandbestsellingwriters. In 

A Short History of NearlyEverything

,he takeshis ultimate journey–into the mostintriguing andconsequentialquestions that science seeks to answer.It’s adazzling quest, theintellectual odyssey of a lifetime, asthisinsatiably curiouswriter attempts to understand everything thathastranspired fromthe Big Bang to the rise of civilization. Or, astheauthor putsit, “…how we went from there being nothing at alltothere beingsomething, and then how a little of thatsomethingturned into us,and also what happened in between andsince.” Thisis, in short, atall order.

To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host oftheworld’smost profound scientific minds, living and dead.Hischallenge is totake subjects like geology, chemisty,paleontology,astronomy, andparticle physics and see if there isn’tsome way torender themcomprehensible to people, like himself, madebored (orscared) stiffof science by school. His interest is notsimply todiscover