Bill 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 u...

Bill 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:

• why 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

This journey through time and spacewill 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.

Written in his inimitable style, Bryson makes complex subjects fascinating and accessible to everyone with an interest in the world around them.*A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 * reveals the world in a whole new way.