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A Short History of Nearly Everything

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Enthralling journey through science and human discovery.

If you've ever wondered about the big questions – how we arrived at our current understanding of the world, the universe, and ourselves – Bryson's book is a treasure trove that transforms complex subjects into fascinating stories. It's as if you're sitting down with a friend who can explain the mysteries of the universe in a way that's engaging, humorous, and incredibly informative.

  • Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2004)
  • EU Descartes Prize for science communication (2005)
  • J. A. Hollon palkinto (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything

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ISBN: 9780385408189
Authors: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Doubleday
Date of Publication: 2003-06-02
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Philosophy, History, Science
Goodreads rating: 4.22
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Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. This book is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally 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. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through time and space, he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly eccentric, competitive, obsessive and foolish scientists, like the painfully shy Henry Cavendish who worked out many conundrums like how much the Earth weighed, but never bothered to tell anybody about many of his findings. In the company of such extraordinary people, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
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Enthralling journey through science and human discovery.

If you've ever wondered about the big questions – how we arrived at our current understanding of the world, the universe, and ourselves – Bryson's book is a treasure trove that transforms complex subjects into fascinating stories. It's as if you're sitting down with a friend who can explain the mysteries of the universe in a way that's engaging, humorous, and incredibly informative.

  • Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2004)
  • EU Descartes Prize for science communication (2005)
  • J. A. Hollon palkinto (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.