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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publishing Language
- English
- ISBN
- 0552997048
- EAN
- 9780552997041
- Release Title
- A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bryson)
- Artist
- Bryson, Bill
- Brand
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- Platform
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- Book Title
- A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bryson)
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Short History of Nearly Everything_ a
- Item Height
- 199 mm
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Subject
- Science
- Item Weight
- 481 g
- Item Width
- 128 mm
- 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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Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN-13
9780552997041
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Product Key Features
Number of Pages
672 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Short History of Nearly Everything_ a
Publication Year
2004
Subject
Science
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
199 mm
Item Weight
481 g
Item Width
128 mm
Additional Product Features
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United Kingdom
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- 15 Mar, 2022
Good read, author has simplified the content.to a non scientific reader.
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- 03 Dec, 2020
A Must Read book
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- 01 Aug, 2019
Very good
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- 11 Jan, 2018
Great condition better than expected
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- 08 Jun, 2017
Awesome brief history of science
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- e***o (56)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThe seller was lovely to buy from and I was really happy with the purchase. Postage, communication, packaging, item description, condition, value were all top tier. I’d definitely purchase from this seller again. I’m very happy, thank you!