About the Book: In this expanded edition of A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0, Bill Bryson—describing himself as a reluctant traveller—lets his boundless curiosity take readers from the Big Bang to the rise of civilisation. Now fully revised with major scientific breakthroughs from the past two decades, it demystifies topics such as why Pluto lost its planetary status, how the number of moons in our solar system more than doubled, how genetic advances uncovered previously unknown human species, and how the Higgs boson upended physics. Written in his signature accessible style, Bryson makes complex science inviting and engaging for generations of readers new and old.