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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback, Export Ed)
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback, Export Ed)
Series: Bryson
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Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even
when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his
curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly
Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened
from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from
there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's
challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most
of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if
there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who
have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so
much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do
we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole
is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did
anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through time
and space, he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly
eccentric, competitive, obsessive and foolish scientists, like the
painfully shy Henry Cavendish who worked out many conundrums like
how much the Earth weighed, but never bothered to tell anybody
about many of his findings. In the company of such extraordinary
people, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening
journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen
it before.
General
Imprint: |
Black Swan
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Bryson |
Release date: |
June 2004 |
First published: |
2003 |
Authors: |
Bill Bryson
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Dimensions: |
178 x 106 x 36mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
686 |
Edition: |
Export Ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-552-15174-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Science: general issues >
Popular science
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LSN: |
0-552-15174-2 |
Barcode: |
9780552151740 |
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