TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bryson,Bill
TI  - A short history of nearly everything
SN  - 0767908171
AV  - Q162 .B88 2003
U1  - 500 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Broadway Books
KW  - Science
KW  - Popular works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-527) and index; PART I. LOST IN THE COSMOS : 1. How to Build a Universe -- 2. Welcome to the Solar System -- 3. The Reverend Evans's Universe.  PART II. THE SIZE OF THE EARTH : 4. The Measure of Things -- 5. The Stone-Breakers -- 6. Science Red in Tooth and Claw -- 7. Elemental Matters.  PART III. A NEW AGE DAWNS : 8. Einstein's Universe -- 9. The Mighty Atom -- 10. Getting the Lead Out -- 11.   Muster Mark's Quarks -- 12. The Earth Moves.  PART IV. DANGEROUS PLANET : 13. Bangl -- 14. The Fire Below -- 15. Dangerous Beauty.  PART V. LIFE ITSELF : 16. Lonely Planet -- 17. Into the Troposphere -- 18. The Bounding Main -- 19. The Rise of Life -- 20. Small World -- 21. Life Goes On -- 22. Good-bye to All That -- 23. The Richness of Being -- 24. Cells -- 25. Darwin's Singular Notion -- 26. The Stuff of Life.  PART Vl. THE ROAD TO US : 27. Ice Time -- 28. The Mysterious Biped -- 29. The Restless Ape -- 30. Good-bye
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