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A short history of nearly everything
Bryson, Bill.
Adult Nonfiction 500 B 2003
Bryson, Bill.
Adult Nonfiction 500 B 2003
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| Contents | Page |
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| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Part I - Lost in the Cosmos | p. 7 |
| 1 - How to Build a Universe | p. 9 |
| 2 - Welcome to the Solar System | p. 19 |
| 3 - The Reverend Evans's Universe | p. 29 |
| Part II - The Size of the Earth | p. 41 |
| 4 - The Measure of Things | p. 43 |
| 5 - The Stone-Breakers | p. 63 |
| 6 - Science Red in Tooth and Claw | p. 79 |
| 7 - Elemental Matters | p. 97 |
| Part III - A New Age Dawns | p. 113 |
| 8 - Einstein's Universe | p. 115 |
| 9 - The Mighty Atom | p. 133 |
| 10 - Getting the Lead Out | p. 149 |
| 11 - Muster Mark's Quarks | p. 161 |
| 12 - The Earth Moves | p. 173 |
| Part IV - Dangerous Planet | p. 187 |
| 13 - Bang! | p. 189 |
| 14 - The Fire Below | p. 207 |
| 15 - Dangerous Beauty | p. 224 |
| Part V - Life Itself | p. 237 |
| 16 - Lonely Planet | p. 239 |
| 17 - Into the Troposphere | p. 255 |
| 18 - The Bounding Main | p. 270 |
| 19 - The Rise of Life | p. 287 |
| 20 - Small World | p. 302 |
| 21 - Life Goes On | p. 321 |
| 22 - Good-bye to All That | p. 335 |
| 23 - The Richness of Being | p. 350 |
| 24 - Cells | p. 371 |
| 25 - Darwin's Singular Notion | p. 381 |
| 26 - The Stuff of Life | p. 397 |
| Part VI - The Road to us | p. 417 |
| 27 - Ice Time | p. 419 |
| 28 - The Mysterious Biped | p. 434 |
| 29 - The Restless Ape | p. 453 |
| 30 - Good-bye | p. 469 |
| Notes | p. 479 |
| Bibliography | p. 517 |
| Index | p. 529 |
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