A short history of nearly everything
The author traces the Big Bang through the rise of civilization, documenting his work with a host of the world's most advanced scientists and mathematicians to explain why things are the way they are
Print Book, English, 2004, ©2003
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Broadway Books, New York, 2004, ©2003
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ix, 544 pages ; 23 cm
9780767908184, 9780767908177, 076790818X, 0767908171
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Lost in the cosmos
How to build a universe
Welcome to the solar system
The Reverend Evan's universe
The size of the Earth
The measure of things
The stone-breakers
Science red in tooth and claw
Elemental matters
A new age dawns
Einstein's universe
The mighty atom
Getting the lead out
Muster Mark's quacks
The Earth moves
Dangerous planet
Bang!
The fire below
Dangerous beauty
Life itself
Lonely planet
Into the troposphere
The bounding man
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
The road to us
Ice time
The mysterious biped
The restless ape
Good-bye
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