A short history of nearly everything
Record details
- ISBN: 0307885151
- ISBN: 9780307885159
- ISBN: 076790818X
- ISBN: 9780767908184
- ISBN: 9780965738408
- ISBN: 096573840X
- ISBN: 9780767908177
- ISBN: 0767908171
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Physical Description:
ix, 544 pages ; 25 cm
regular print
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, 2003.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-527) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Lost in the cosmos: How to build a universe ; Welcome to the solar system ; The Reverend Evans's universe -- The size of the earth: The measure of things ; The stone-breakers ; Science red in tooth and claw ; Elemental matters -- A new age dawns: Einstein's universe ; The mighty atom ; Getting the lead out ; Muster Mark's quarks ; Earth moves -- Dangerous planet: Bang! ; The fire below ; Dangerous beauty -- Life itself: Lonely planet ; Into the troposphere ; The bounding main ; The rise of life ; Small world ; Life goes on ; Good-bye to all that ; The richness of being ; Cells ; Darwin's singular notion ; The stuff of life -- The road to us: Ice time ; The mysterious biped ; The restless ape ; Good-bye. |
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Subject: | Science Popular works Science Popular works Sciences Ouvrages de vulgarisation Science Natuurwetenschappen Wetenschapsbeoefening Science Science |
Genre: | Popular Work. Popular works. Popular works. |
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- Publisher description
Bill Bryson's bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union's highest literary award). He was chancellor of Durham University, England's third oldest university, from 2005 to 2011, and is an honorary fellow of Britain's Royal Society.