A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
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- ISBN 10
- 076790818X
- ISBN 13
- 9780767908184
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About This Item
Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world's most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds.
A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.
Synopsis
In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bryson follows his greatest challenge yet: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. From the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. The result is a profound, funny, and wonderfully clear and entertaining adventure into the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it.
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Very readable scientific info. for the layman, enjoyable, eye-opening, even sometimes funny. Quite storylike. A huge amount of info.
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- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ8922658
- Title
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Author
- Bill Bryson
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 076790818X
- ISBN 13
- 9780767908184
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2004-09-14
- Keywords
- science
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science/Nature Writing;