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_OC_InitNavbar("child_node":["title":"My library","url":" =114584440181414684107\u0026source=gbs_lp_bookshelf_list","id":"my_library","collapsed":true,"title":"My History","url":"","id":"my_history","collapsed":true,"title":"Books on Google Play","url":" ","id":"ebookstore","collapsed":true],"highlighted_node_id":"");A Short History of Nearly EverythingBill BrysonTransworld, 2 Mar 2010 - Science - 672 pages 3466 ReviewsReviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identifiedThe ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 million copies.'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.' Economist'Truly impressive...It's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science.' Guardian'A travelogue of science, with a witty, engaging, and well-informed guide' The TimesBill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely 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.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. As a result, A Short History of Nearly Everything reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
Bill Bryson Review cont...The book is organized into 6 main chapters.Lost in the CosmosExamines the Big Bang and the start of everything, and mankind's exploration of our solar system and beyond. The Size of the EarthOutlines the history of the numerous science pioneers who discovered gravity, the size and weight of the Earthand the earliest dinosaur fossil hunters.A New Age DawnsThe twentieth century and the discoveries of Einstein and other giants.Dangerous PlanetA fascinating and unnerving chapter about super volcanoes such as Yellowstone National Park, and the ever presentthreat of asteroids.Life ItselfAn absorbing chapter on where the human species originated from and the jouney of discovery of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel.The Road to UsIce ages, climate changes, the rise of man, the tragedy of species extinction and the threat of climate change.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Yes, that's about right, and in A short history of nearly everything he does pretty much the same thing. The only difference is that here the places he visits are not just on the other side of the planet, they're also inside the planet, all around the planet and a very, very long way away from the planet. They also range from places he visited last year to the place where it all begansomething like 13.7 billion years ago. It's a lot of ground to cover.
But where the book does succeed is in its scope. For a single writer to cover so many disparate subjects, and do so with such confidence and so engagingly, is a remarkable achievement. A short history may come up well short of the cutting edge of contemporary science, but it certainly helps explain how we got there in the first place. 2ff7e9595c
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