![A Short History of Nearly Everything](https://nationalbookswap.com/pbs/m/16/9616/9780385609616.jpg)
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I read this 5 years ago, read it again this month, and didn't know that I had already read it until I went to post it on PBS! Anyway, he does manage to cover nearly everything in theoretical science (I'm sure there are parts he left out), and if you aren't a self-styled expert on those areas, it it quite informative.