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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Reader Score
88%
88% of readers
recommend this book
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail--well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand--and, if possible, answer--the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world's most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.
Book Details
- Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
- Publish Date: Sep 14th, 2004
- Pages: 560
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.10in - 1.20in - 1.30lb
- EAN: 9780767908184
- Categories: • Essays• Natural History
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What people are saying
"From working out the age of the Earth to understanding the ingredients of atoms or how natural disasters work, Mr Bryson is genuinely curious about the world and, as he learns, so do you. ... this book is possibly the best scientific primer ever published."
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Of course, on Father’s Day, I’m sitting back and reading Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, just to make myself feel as small and insignificant as possible!
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Anyone who has read Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" and Ben Goldacre's "Bad Science" and "Bad Pharma" cannot help but harbour a very deep and healthy skepticism of science and scientists. That is if they paid attention to what they read.
Praise for this book
--The New York Times
"Bryson has made a career writing hilarious travelogues, and in many ways his latest is more of the same, except that this time Bryson hikes through the world of science."
--People
"Bryson is surprisingly precise, brilliantly eccentric and nicely eloquent . . . a gifted storyteller has dared to retell the world's biggest story."
--Seattle Times
"Hefty, highly researched and eminently readable."
--Simon Winchester, The Globe and Mail
"All non-scientists (and probably many specialized scientists, too) can learn a great deal from his lucid and amiable explanations."
--National Post
"Bryson is a terrific stylist. You can' t help but enjoy his writing, for its cheer and buoyancy, and for the frequent demonstration of his peculiar, engaging turn of mind."
--Ottawa Citizen
"Wonderfully readable. It is, in the best sense, learned."
--Winnipeg Free Press
What people are saying
"From working out the age of the Earth to understanding the ingredients of atoms or how natural disasters work, Mr Bryson is genuinely curious about the world and, as he learns, so do you. ... this book is possibly the best scientific primer ever published."
That guy, who did that thing. NARCOS: MÉXICO, YELLOWBRICKROAD, WE GO ON, THE HARBINGER, Parks and Recreation, etc. T1D Dad & Chi-town born and bred.
Of course, on Father’s Day, I’m sitting back and reading Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, just to make myself feel as small and insignificant as possible!