Title of text
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Author(s)
Bill Bryson
Publisher/Source
Broadway Publishing
URL
Intended audience
Lay public
Summary
Bill Bryson's approach is to tell the interesting stories behind a wide variety of major scientific discoveries. He covers a lot of ground in an engaging and funny way and portrays scientists as human beings with their own foibles. While there is very little scientific content in the book it is an effective hook to get students interested in the process of science and inevitably the interest in the scientific content has followed.