Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything

“whether he thought an old skull was varnished or not . . .” Nature , September 27, 2001, p. 359.

“had inserted a visit to Olorgesailie. . .” Just for the record, the name is also commonly spelled Olorgasailie, including in some official Kenyan materials. It was this spelling that I used in a small book I wrote for CARE concerning the visit. I am now informed by Ian Tattersall that the correct spelling is with a median e .

“a handful of crude descriptions by ‘unscientific voyagers . . .’ ” Quoted in Gould, Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms, pp. 237-38.

“Australia . . . lost no less than 95 percent . . .” Flannery and Schouten, p. xv.

“there are only so many mammoth steaks you can eat.” New Scientist, “Mammoth Mystery,” May 5, 2001, p. 34.

“only four types of really hefty . . . land animals . . .” Flannery, The Eternal Frontier , p. 195.

“human-caused extinction now may be running . . .” Leakey and Lewin, The Sixth Extinction , p. 241.

“He set off at once for the island . . .” Flannery, The Future Eaters, pp. 62-63.

“At each successive discharge . . .” Quoted in Matthiessen, Wildlife in America, pp. 114-115.

“the zoo lost it . . .” Flannery and Schouten, p. 125.

“as many as four hundred at a time . . .” Gould, The Book of Life, p. 79.

“Hugh Cuming, who became so preoccupied . . .” Desmond and Moore, p. 342.

“Millions of years of isolation . . .” National Geographic , “On the Brink: Hawaii’s Vanishing Species,” September 1995, pp. 2-37.

“if someone imitated its song . . .” Flannery and Schouten, p. 84.

“a bird so sublimely rare . . .” Flannery and Schouten, p. 76.

“By the early 1990s he had raised the figure . . .” Easterbrook, A Moment on the Earth, p. 558.

“A United Nations report of 1995 . . .” Valley News, quoting Washington Post, “Report Finds Growing Biodiversity Threat,” November 27, 1995.

“One planet, one experiment.“ Wilson, The Diversity of Life, p. 182.

Aczel, Amir D. God’s Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe . New York: Delta/Random House, 1999.

Alberts, Bruce, et al. Essential Cell Biology: An Introduction to the Molecular Biology of the Cell . New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998.

Allen, Oliver E. Atmosphere . Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1983.

Alvarez, Walter. T. Rex and the Crater of Doom . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Annan, Noel. The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses . London: HarperCollins, 2000.

Ashcroft, Frances. Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival . London: HarperCollins, 2000.

Asimov, Isaac. The History of Physics . New York: Walker amp; Co., 1966.

– --. Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos: The Growth and Future of Human Knowledge . London: Penguin Books, 1984.

– --. Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos . New York: Truman Talley/Dutton, 1991.

Atkins, P. W. The Second Law . New York: Scientific American , 1984.

– --. Molecules . New York: Scientific American , 1987.

– --. The Periodic Kingdom . New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Attenborough, David. Life on Earth: A Natural History . Boston: Little, Brown amp; Co., 1979.

– --. The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth . Boston: Little, Brown amp; Co., 1984.

– --. The Private Life of Plants: A Natural History of Plant Behavior . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Baeyer, Hans Christian von. Taming the Atom: The Emergence of the Visible Microworld . New York: Random House, 1992.

Bakker, Robert T. The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction . New York: William Morrow, 1986.

Ball, Philip. H 2O: A Biography of Water . London: Phoenix/Orion, 1999.

Ballard, Robert D. The Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Barber, Lynn. The Heyday of Natural History: 1820-1870 . Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980.

Barry, Roger G., and Richard J. Chorley. Atmosphere, Weather and Climate, 7 thed. London: Routledge, 1998.

Biddle, Wayne. A Field Guide to the Invisible . New York: Henry Holt amp; Co., 1998.

Bodanis, David. The Body Book . London: Little, Brown amp; Co., 1984.

– --. The Secret House: Twenty-Four Hours in the Strange and Unexpected World in Which We Spend Our Nights and Days . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.

– --. The Secret Family: Twenty-Four Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds and Bodies . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

– --. E = mc 2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation . London: Macmillan, 2000.

Bolles, Edmund Blair. The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age . Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint/Perseus, 1999.

Boorse, Henry A., Lloyd Motz, and Jefferson Hane Weaver. The Atomic Scientists: A Biographical History . New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1989.

Boorstin, Daniel J. The Discoverers . London: Penguin Books, 1986.

– --. Cleopatra’s Nose: Essays on the Unexpected . New York: Random House, 1994.

Bracegirdle, Brian. A History of Microtechnique: The Evolution of the Microtome and the Development of Tissue Preparation . London: Heinemann, 1978.

Breen, Michael. The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

Broad, William J. The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Brock, William H. The Norton History of Chemistry . New York: W. W. Norton amp; Co., 1993.

Brockman, John, and Katinka Matson, eds. How Things Are: A Science Tool-Kit for the Mind . New York: William Morrow, 1995.

Brookes, Martin. Fly: The Unsung Hero of Twentieth-Century Science . London: Phoenix, 2002.

Brown, Guy. The Energy of Life . London: Flamingo/HarperCollins, 2000.

Browne, Janet. Charles Darwin: A Biography . Vol 1. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Burenhult, Göran, ed. The First Americans: Human Origins and History to 10,000 B.C . San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993.

Cadbury, Deborah. Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science . New York: Henry Holt, 2000.

Calder, Nigel. Einstein’s Universe . New York: Wings Books/Random House, 1979.

– --. The Comet Is Coming!: The Feverish Legacy of Mr. Halley . New York: Viking Press, 1981.

Canby, Courtlandt, ed. The Epic of Man . New York: Time/Life, 1961.

Carey, John, ed. The Faber Book of Sciences . London: Faber and Faber, 1995.

Chorlton, Windsor. Ice Ages . New York: Time-Life Books, 1983.

Christianson, Gale E. In the Presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton and His Times . New York: Free Press/Macmillan, 1984.

– --. Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae . Bristol, England: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1995.

Clark, Ronald W. The Huxleys . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.