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In Bryson's biggest book, A Short History of Nearly Everything 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.
A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest. A sometimes profound, sometimes funny, always supremely clear, and especially entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.