Bill Bryson's (2003) book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, discusses topics s follows.
PART I LOST IN THE COSMOS
1 How to Build a Universe
2 Welcome to the Solar System
3 The Reverend Evans's Universe
PART II THE SIZE OF THE EARTH
4 The Measure of Things
5 The Stone-Breakers
6 Science Red in Tooth and Claw
7 Elemental Matters
PART III ANEW AGE DAWNS
8 Einstein's Universe
9 The Mighty Atom
10 Getting the Lead Out
11 Muster Mark's Quarks
12 The Earth Moves
PART IV DANGEROUS PLANET
13 Bang!
14 The Fire Below
15 Dangerous Beauty
PART V LIFE ITSELF
16 Lonely Planet
17 Into the Troposphere
18 The Bounding Main
19 The Rise of Life
20 Small World
21 Life Goes On
22 Good-bye to All That
23 The Richness of Being
24 Cells
25 Darwin's Singular Notion
26 The Stuff of Life
PART VI THE ROAD TO US
27 Ice Time
28 The Mysterious Biped
29 The Restless Ape
30 Good-bye
See the attached book for details.
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