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Short History of Nearly Everythingby Bill Bryson
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey — into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail — well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand — and, if possible, answer — the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. 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. From the Hardcover edition. Synopsis:Paperback edition of Bryson's bestselling romp through evolutionary theory. The hardback was a constant at the top of the bestseller charts, confirming Bryson as one of the most popular non-fiction writers working today. "A thoroughly enjoyable, as well as educational, experience" "Daily Express"
Synopsis:For all those who couldn't understand 'A Brief History of Time', the incomparable Bill Bryson takes on popular science, travelling through space and time to introduce us to the world, the universe and everything, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before. His challenge is to take subjects that usually 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. The first full-length Bill Bryson book for three years, since 'Down Under'. Paperback edition
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