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A Short History of Nearly Everything

By Bill Bryson

Book information

Publisher
Crown Publishing Group
Year
2005
ISBN
9780307885166
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
67 MB (70489644 bytes)
Edition
Illustrated
Pages
\0
Topic
History
Time added
2024-11-03 22:48:25

Description

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,...

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