In A Short History of Nearly Everything, the famed and much beloved writer BillBryson confronts his greatest challenge: to understand-and, if possible, answer-theOldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as His territory everything the Big to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand How we got from there being nothing at all to there being us.
To that end, he has Attached himself to a host of the world's most advanced (and often obsessed) Archaeologists, paleontologists, physicists, astronomers, anthropologists, and athematicians, traveling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. A Short History of Nearly Ecerything is the record of this quest, and it is a profound, funny,Supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, asOnly Bill Bryson can render it.

CONTANTS:
★PART I: LOST IＮ THE COSMOS
‧How to Build the Universe‧Welcome to the Solar System‧The Reverend Evans's Universe
★PART II: THE SIZE OF THE EARTH
‧The measure of things ‧The Stone-Breakers ‧Science Red in Tooth and Claw ‧Elemental Matters
★PART III: A NEW AGE DAWNS
‧Einstein's Universe ‧The Mighty Atom ‧Getting the Lead Out ‧Muster Mark's Quarks ‧The earth Moves
★PART IV: DANGEROUS PLANET
‧Bang ‧The Fire Below ‧Dangerous Beauty
★PART V: LIFE ITSELF
‧Lonely Planet ‧Into the Troposphere ‧The Bounding Main ‧The Rise of Life ‧Small World ‧Life Goes On ‧Good-bye to All That ‧The Richness of Being ‧Cells ‧Darwin's Singular Notion ‧The Stuff of Life
★PART VI: THE ROAD TO US
‧Ice Time ‧The Mysterious Biped ‧The Restless Ape ‧Good-bye


幽默好奇的文學作家--Bill Bryson試圖了解一切文明的起源與過程，他將旅行蒐集得來的知識集結成書，他喜愛的主題包括考古學、地質、生物、天文....他不僅啟發讀者發現許多問題，也帶領讀者知道發現答案的過程。
例如我們是如何知道存在於地球中心的物質、宇宙的構成....他讓我們發現人類所居住的世界到處充滿驚奇！