A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0'A Short History of Nearly Everything 2. 0' is the result of Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization how we got from being nothing at all to what we are today. Now fully updated to include all the latest advances in science, it is more ground breaking than ever before. Bryson makes complex subjects fascinating and accessible to everyone with an interest in the world around them.

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and interspersed with drama and a great deal of unintended comedy

knife-fighting

But having just been nominated for his first Oscar

Aimed at the popular science market

This extensive project

affirmations of identity and engagements with deep-rooted historical narratives

'Dispatches from the Diaspora' is an unrivalled body of work from a unique perspective that takes you to the frontlines and compels you to engage and to 'imagine a world in which you might thrive

Clement Attlee - the man who created the welfare state and decolonised vast swathes of the British Empire

The addition of '70s hippiedom at the many ports-of-call catches the history of the day

behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine

It's been fifteen years since Simon Meier walked out of his house