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Now revised and updated to take in the major scientific developments of the past decade, A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's classic quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here,...
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17h 7m
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180 WPM
12h 19m
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250 WPM
8h 48m
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350 WPM
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13 h 41 min
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