This book is fascinating and laugh-out-loud funny. If you like science, history and humor, do not navigate...

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	• A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson Broadway, 2004 - 560 pages average customer review:based on 601 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Learn Everything

This is a great book and it teaches you just about everything about everything. Highly recommended.

Best book ever written

Bill Bryson's best work. If you aren't taken by the Introduction, you won't like the rest of the book... but if the Introduction speaks to you -- buckle up! I've turned down about half of the pages because of some funny, interesting, amazing tidbit I want to remember. Who knew that science could be so interesting and so entertaining! Bryson's dry humor is just right to bring what could be dense, complex information to vivid life. I will admit -- the knowledge I gained from this book caused a complete spiritual upheaval with me -- it really puts things (i.e., us) in perspective. This is my new FAVORITE BOOK, and I've given away many copies. A winner!!!

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This book is fascinating and laugh-out-loud funny. If you like science, history and humor, do not navigate away without buying.

This book won't teach you quantum mechanics or astrophysics, thank God. Anyone who pans it for that, or for containing spot inaccuracies, is a nit-picking killjoy.

Instead, it reveals the whole "but how did they figure that out?" behind those subjects, while making you laugh out loud. I cannot recall a more enjoyable read on ANY topic, and I recommend it strongly for anyone who enjoys science writing and likes to laugh.

If you have somehow managed to navigate to this page, put the book in your cart right now--even if only for later--because it will enrich your life far more than saving the money would. You'll love it---and that's the whole point.

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a very good read, full of rambling knowledges and fascinating locations and facts

This is a funny collection of history and science as we know it through Bill Bryson's eyes. It's full of ramblings that are rather comical at times and sleepy at others but a nice read altogether as the author visits history, historical people, the progression of knowledge and our understanding of it today. The book is literally about a small piece of history of every aspect of the universe as we know it. Well put together and not a simple quick reading.

most entertaining,enlightening book of the world we live in.

This book explains concepts such as black holes and every invention ever done in the most eloquent and simple way, making you feel smarter than you actually are.

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One of the world?s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. 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. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world?s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.

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