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A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition

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Random House Digital, Inc., 30/nov/2010 - 624 pagine
Bill Bryson is one of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, he takes his ultimate journey–into the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer. It’s a dazzling quest, the intellectual odyssey of a lifetime, as this insatiably curious writer attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. Or, as the author puts it, “…how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since.” This is, in short, a tall order.

To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world’s most profound scientific minds, living and dead. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemisty, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see if there isn’t some way to render them comprehensible to people, like himself, made bored (or scared) stiff of science by school. His interest is not simply to discover what we know but to find out how we know it. How do we know what is in the center of the earth, thousands of miles beneath the surface? How can we know the extent and the composition of the universe, or what a black hole is? How can we know where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out?

On his travels through space and time, Bill Bryson encounters a splendid gallery of the most fascinating, eccentric, competitive, and foolish personalities ever to ask a hard question. In their company, he undertakes a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only this superb writer can render it. Science has never been more involving, and the world we inhabit has never been fuller of wonder and delight.


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Gr8 fun and very educational - weRead
I find his travel writing dull and unreadable. - weRead
Good, accessible introduction to modern science. - weRead
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Lucid explanations of the world around us. - weRead
A rather pompous introduction but true nonetheless. - weRead

Review: A Short History of Nearly Everything

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If your into the nitty-gritty of singularity and big bang and cellular atom structure and the minutiae of geology and paleontology and ...then you'll have a potential interest in this book. The ... Leggi recensione completa

Review: A Short History of Nearly Everything

Recensione dell'utente  - Aurelien - Goodreads

In about 600 pages, Bill Bryson has the audacity and talent to tell us not only the history of science and its major discoveries but, also how it works. He even takes advantage of it all to portray ... Leggi recensione completa

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Indice

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
HOW TO BUILD A UNIVERSE
WELCOME TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM
THE REVEREND EVANSS UNIVERSE
THE MEASURE OF THINGS
THE STONEBREAKERS
SCIENCE RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW
CELLS
DARWINS SINGULAR NOTION
THE STUFF OF LIFE
ICE TIME
THE MYSTERIOUS BIPED
THE RESTLESS APE
GOODBYE
NOTES

ELEMENTAL MATTERS
EINSTEINS UNIVERSE
THE MIGHTY ATOM
GETTING THE LEAD OUT
MUSTER MARKS QUARKS
THE EARTH MOVES
BANG
THE FIRE BELOW
DANGEROUS BEAUTY
LONELY PLANET
INTO THE TROPOSPHERE
THE BOUNDING MAIN
THE RISE OF LIFE
SMALL WORLD
LIFE GOES ON
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
THE RICHNESS OF BEING
The Rise of Life
Small World
Life Goes On
Goodbye to All That
The Richness of Being
Cells
Darwins Singular Notion
The Stuff of Life
Ice Time
The Mysterious Biped
The Restless Ape
Goodbye
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATIONS
INDEX
Copyright

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Bill Bryson’s bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, In A Sunburned Country, Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, Bill Bryson's African Diary, and A Short History of Nearly Everything. He lives in Norfolk, England, with his wife and children.


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