100,000 Whys Book for Adults: The Ultimate Encyclopedia for the Curious Adult by Levin Tillman

You've been curious your entire life. This book finally keeps up with you. Why is there something instead of nothing? Why do we dream? Why does money have value? Why do empires fall? Why does music give you chills? Why do you keep repeating the same mistakes? Why is the sky blue — and what does that question lead to if you follow it all the way down? These are the questions you've wondered about since childhood — the ones that get brushed aside in classrooms, glossed over in conversation, and answered online with walls of jargon that explain nothing. You deserved better then. You deserve better now. 100,000 Whys: The Ultimate Encyclopedia for Curious Adults is a landmark work of popular nonfiction that covers the full sweep of human knowledge — science, philosophy, history, psychology, technology, nature, culture, and the deep unknown — in a format designed for the way real adults actually want to learn: clearly, directly, and without being talked down to. Inside, you'll find: More than 600 questions across 51 chapters and 9 major parts — from the foundations of reality to the future of artificial intelligence, from why your body does surprising things to why civilizations rise and fall, from the smallest quirks of daily life to the largest unanswered mysteries in all of science. Read more