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A Short History Of Nearly Everything,Bil l Bryson
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- Publication Year
- 2003
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- Publication Name
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
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- Subject
- Science
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- Number of 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 - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. ill 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? n 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 findi
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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English
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Science
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2003
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528 Pages
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- 26 Nov, 2023Most favourable review
This book may disappear in time, but it belongs on any bookshelf. I am not easily impressed but this book is a worthwhile read
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- 30 Oct, 2018Most critical review
Old and inaccurate.
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- 30 Dec, 2017
Excellent Introduction To General Science
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- 06 Mar, 2012
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Entertaining explanation of....nearly everything!
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