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Bill Bryson summaries

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Bill Bryson is a writer known for his trademark humour and curiosity, which he turns to science, explaining how we came to know what we know through colourful stories about the people behind each discovery. Begin with A Short History of Nearly Everything, which walks you through atoms, stars, rocks and cells and gives you a broad map of science, then move on to The Body, which brings that same sense of wonder closer to home by showing how our own bodies work and how medicine learned to protect them. These summaries suit school and university students who find science textbooks dry, parents looking for answers to their children's endless questions, and busy professionals across the region who want to understand the world around them without wading through jargon.