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| | 1. |  | A Short History of Nearly Everything
from Broadway
Price: $8.70
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Bryson's sparkling style cinches this as one of my top 10 books ever. It seems some scientific types are upset that Bryson delves into the lives of scientists making discoveries more than the discoveries themselves. This is his brilliance! If I want to learn everything there is to know about any... more info
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| | 4. |  | A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
from Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Price: $11.69
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Bill Bryson combines great intelligence, expansive knowledge, and a clear, conversational writing style to tell the history of Earth and human civilizations. With wonderful diagrams and illustrations, the book is great for kids and for grown-ups too! One point off for the editors of this edition,... more info
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| | 5. |  | The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $7.99
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Well written. Full of insights about financial history. I did not appreciate that the fate of the south in the Civil War was cast with the fall of New Orleans and the subsequent collapse of their monetary system. Lot of information about this kind of stuff and understandable by a financial tyro.more info
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| | 10. |  | A Little History of the World
from Yale University Press
Price: $7.49
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This is world history as "concept." It attacks the subject in chunks of the "once upon a time" variety, just big enough to stick to the brain and such that even a young kid can understand and enjoy it. Yet, it is not for kids only, for it covers all of the major events, personalities, dynasties and... more info
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