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In this book Bill Bryson explores the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer and attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound... Full description
Table of Contents:
- One: Lost in the Cosmos
- How to build a Universe
- Welcome to the Solar System
- The Reverend Evans's Universe
- Two: The size of the Earth
- The measure of things
- The stone-breakers
- Science red in tooth and claw
- Elemental matters
- Three: A new age dawns
- Einstein's universe
- The mighty atom
- Getting the lead out
- Muster Mark's quarks
- The earth moves
- Four: Dangerous planet
- Bang!
- The Fire below
- Dangerous beauty
- Five: Life itself
- Lonely planet
- Into the troposphere
- The bounding main
- The rise of life
- Small world
- Life goes on
- Goodbye to all that
- The richness of being
- Cells
- Darwin's singular notion
- The stuff of life
- Six: The road to us
- Ice time
- The mysterious Biped
- The restless ape
- Goodbye.