{"product_id":"a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-20","title":"A Short History Of Nearly Everything 2.0","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this fully revised and updated edition of the best-selling popular science book of the 21st century, Bill Bryson makes complex subjects clear and compelling for everyone with an interest in the world around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.' Economist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Truly impressive...It's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science.' Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBill Bryson can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 is the result of his 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 reflect the many scientific discoveries in the last twenty years since this book was first published, it explains among much else:\u003cbr\u003e\nwhy Pluto is no longer a planet how the number of moons in the solar system has more than doubled in 20 years how scientists used advances in genetics to discover previously unknown species of early humans why we still don't know what most of the universe is made of how the little Higgs boson transformed physics\u003cbr\u003e\nThis journey through time and space will inform a new generation of readers, young and old, as well as those who read this book on first publication with a new perspective based on what we know now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in his inimitable style, Bryson makes complex subjects fascinating and accessible to everyone with an interest in the world around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 reveals the world in a whole new way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for A Short History of Nearly Everything:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI doubt that a better book for the layman about the findings of modern science has been written. Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBill Bryson has an unmatched gift for explaining the most difficult subjects in the clearest possible way. Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A travelogue of science, with a witty, engaging, and well-informed guide' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHugely readable and never obfuscating. Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA genuinely useful and readable book... A thoroughly enjoyable, as well as educational, experience. Nobody who reads it will ever look at the world around them in the same way again Daily Express\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe very book I have been looking for most of my life... Bryson wears his knowledge with aplomb and a lot of very good jokes. Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDestined to become a modern classic of science writing The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45231274229939,"sku":"9781529966817","price":880.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/81NV6Qiv1TL.jpg?v=1768993624","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-20","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}