Book
A short history of nearly everything / Bill Bryson. --
Record details
- ISBN: 0767908171
- ISBN: 9780767908177
- Physical Description: ix, 544 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed. --
- Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, 2003.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-527) and index. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 42.88 |
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| Subject: | Science. Cosmology. Life > Origin. Human beings > Origin. Culture > Origin. Science > Humor. Life > Origin > Humor. Human beings > Origin > Humor. Culture > Origin > Humor. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 500 Bry | 31681020064507 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The author traces the Big Bang through the rise of civilization, documenting his work with a host of the world's most advanced scientists and mathematicians to explain why things are the way they are. - Blackwell North Amer
A Short History of Nearly Everything is a quest, the intellectual odyssey of a lifetime, as this curious writer attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. - Book News
Popular writer Bryson turns from geographical to temporal realms to summarize what has happened from the time of the Big Bang to now, especially as it pertains to items of local interest, such as the solar system, earth, life, and humans. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - Random House, Inc.
One of the worldâs most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journeyâinto the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trailâwell, most of it. 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 understandâand, if possible, answerâthe 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 worldâs 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.
