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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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- 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.
THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER, UPDATED FOR 2025 ⢠A wonder-filled quest to understand everything that has happened in the history of the Earth, from the Big Bang theory to the rise of civilization and beyondârevised to reflect the last two decades of scientific advancement
âBrims with strange and amazing facts . . . destined to become a modern classic of science writing.ââThe New York Times
How did we get from being nothing at all to where we are today? How did the age of the dinosaurs eventually give way to the age of the iPhone? In this completely revised update to the international phenomenon A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson returns to answer these questions and many more.
Bryson brings a groundbreaking account of life itself to a new generation of readers, as he takes subjects often passed off as boring and incomprehensible and renders them accessible, fascinating, and outright amusing to anyone whoâs ever wondered about the world around them. Introducing readers to a diverse cast of the worldâs most impressive archaeologists, paleontologists, physicists, astronomers, anthropologists, and mathematiciansâfrom their offices and laboratories to dig sites and field campsâBryson embarks on a journey to discover answers to the biggest questions about the universe and ourselves.
A Short History of Nearly Everything is a profoundly enlightening, surprisingly humorous, and charmingly clever adventure into the realm of human knowledge, as only Bryson can render it. His revamped Short History is a thrilling journey through time and space, and his writing will make readers both new and old see the world in a whole new way.
