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Article: A Short History of Nearly Everything. Bill Bryson. 2003.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review)
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Read by the author. Abridged. 5 cds. 6 hrs. Random House Audio. 0-7393-0294-9. $29.95. Cardboard; content, author notes. SA
Bestselling author of travelogues, Bryson has collected facts from hundreds of books, articles, and interviews to give his readers a short course in science, a subject he admits to disliking in school Bryson takes his readers on a whirlwind tour through the Universe, subatomic particles, the origin of heavy elements, the Big Bang, Isaac Newton, the age and weight of the Earth, geology, paleontology, chemistry, Sir Humphrey Davy, the Curies, the atomic age, Einstein, Edwin Hubble, Niels Bohr, quantum mechanics, radiocarbon dating, holes in the ...