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A short history of nearly everything / Bill Bryson.

By: Bryson, BillMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto, ON : Anchor Canada, 2004Edition: Anchor Canada edDescription: 544 pContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0385660049Subject(s): Science -- Popular worksDDC classification: 500 BRY 2004 LOC classification: AG 195 | .B79 2003
Contents:
Part I - Lost in the cosmos -- How to build a universe -- Welcome to the solar system -- The Reverend Evans's universe -- Part II - The Size of the earth -- The Measure of things -- The Stone-breakers -- Science red in tooth and claw -- Elemental Matters -- Part III - A New age -- Einstein's Universe -- The Mighty atom -- Getting the lead out -- Muster Mark's quarks -- The Earth moves -- Part IV - Dangerous planet -- Bang! -- The Fire below -- Dangerous beauty -- Part V - Life itself -- Loney planet -- Into the troposphere -- The Bounding main -- The Rise of life -- Small world -- Life goes on -- Good-bye to all that -- The Richness of being -- Cells -- Darwin's singular notion -- The Stuff of life -- Part VI The Road to Us -- Ice time -- The Mysterious biped -- The Restless ape -- Good-bye.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I - Lost in the cosmos -- How to build a universe -- Welcome to the solar system -- The Reverend Evans's universe -- Part II - The Size of the earth -- The Measure of things -- The Stone-breakers -- Science red in tooth and claw -- Elemental Matters -- Part III - A New age -- Einstein's Universe -- The Mighty atom -- Getting the lead out -- Muster Mark's quarks -- The Earth moves -- Part IV - Dangerous planet -- Bang! -- The Fire below -- Dangerous beauty -- Part V - Life itself -- Loney planet -- Into the troposphere -- The Bounding main -- The Rise of life -- Small world -- Life goes on -- Good-bye to all that -- The Richness of being -- Cells -- Darwin's singular notion -- The Stuff of life -- Part VI The Road to Us -- Ice time -- The Mysterious biped -- The Restless ape -- Good-bye.

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