{"product_id":"short-history-of-nearly-everything","title":"Short History of Nearly Everything","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of the world‚Äôs most beloved writers and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA Walk in the Woods \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e The Body \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003etakes his ultimate journey‚Äîinto the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Walk in the Woods\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewell, most of it. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Sunburned Country\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand, if possible, answer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang 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‚Äôs most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Short History of Nearly Everything \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Random House Large Print Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50223985852701,"sku":"9798217287925","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9798217287925.jpg?v=1754333527","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/short-history-of-nearly-everything","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}