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A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bryson)-Bill Bryson
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- ISBN
- 9780552997041
- EAN
- 9780552997041
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Short History of Nearly Everything_ a
- Item Height
- 199mm
- Publisher
- TransWorld LTD
- Topic
- Science
- Item Width
- 128mm
- Item Weight
- 481g
- Number of Pages
- 672 Pages
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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. A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. He looks at 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 such as how much the Earth weighed, but never bothered to tell anybody about t
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TransWorld LTD
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9780552997041
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Short History of Nearly Everything_ a
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Science
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
672 Pages
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Item Height
199mm
Item Width
128mm
Item Weight
481g
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United Kingdom
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