A Short History of Nearly Everything

The history of any part of the Earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.

~British geologist DEREK V. AGER

In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson puts the miracle of life, the universe and everything into perspective. He warns us that even though the book is called A Short History of Nearly Everything, it is not short. It can’t be, since it is about how it happened, and contains how we went from there being nothing at all to...