A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson, (2005) 624 pgs... Okay, this was like a refresher course of a lot of basic science but with a context and framework of Bryson's casual approach, and reasoned disposition. Really helped me wrap the stuff around my mind. I kept putting it down, exclaiming "no way" and then re-reading the previous chapter. Why wasn't all this important stuff explained to me this way when in school! Although, not a scientist himself, Bryson would have been or is? a terrific professor.