From reading multiple overviews and reviews of Bill Bryson's novel A Short History of Everything it is clear to see that this is a science book with a difference. Bryson, a travel writer, realised that he knew very little about the world that he had seen so much of and decided to be personally tutored by some of the best scientists across the world. By doing so, he could produce this book - a sort of idiot's guide to science. Within the book he covers an extremely large range of subjects - spanning almost the entirety of the earth's history. This includes the size of the universe, atoms and sub-atomic particles, geology, biology, meteorites, natural disasters such as earthquakes, scientists themselves and their eccentric behaviour, the earth's climate, mass extinctions, Newton, Einstein, Darwin, the improbability of life, quantum mechanics and more.
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