couple of recommendations: Bill Bryson's A Brief History of Nearly Everything Neil Degrasse Tyson reading his own book, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Pale

couple of recommendations: Bill Bryson's A Brief History of Nearly Everything Neil Degrasse Tyson reading his own book, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - By Carl Sagan Chaos by James Gleick