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What a Wonderful World: Life, the Universe and Everything in a Nutshell by Marcus Chown quickly and painlessly brings us up to speed on how the world of the 21st century works with wit, colour and clarity. From economics to physics and biology to philosophy, Marcus Chown explains the complex forces that shape our universe. In this wonderful book Marcus Chown uses his vast scientific knowledge and deep understanding of extremely complex processes to answer simple questions about the workings of our everyday lives. Lucid, witty and hugely entertaining, it explains the basics of our essential existence, stopping along the way to show us why the Atlantic is widening by a thumbs' length each year, how money permits trade to time travel why the crucial advantage humans had over Neanderthals was sewing and why we are all living in a giant hologram.