· Of course, a history of everything, even a SHORT history of NEARLY everything, has got to be fairly long. Bryson begins, logically enough, at the beginning, or at least the beginning as best science can determine/5(4). David Bryson, Felicity Bryson, Dan McLean, Nick Southern, Patrick Gallagher, Larry Ashmead, and the staff of the peerless and ever-cheery Howe Library in Hanover, New Hampshire. Above all, and as always, my profoundest thanks to my dear wife, www.doorway.ru Size: 1MB. 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 to , and is an honorary fellow of Britain's Royal Society/5(K).
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 to , and is an honorary fellow of Britain's Royal. 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. Author Bill Bryson begins A Short History of Nearly Everything by saying that he's glad the reader can join him, especially because the reader—like every other living being—only exists because of a long chain of history, starting with atoms and resulting in complex life. To be alive at all is the result of an extreme amount of "biological good fortune," since percent of species.
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson. A Short History of Nearly Everything by American author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas of science, using easily accessible language that appeals more so to the general public than many other books dedicated to the subject. Bryson offers a kid-friendly version of his popular-science compendium for adults, A Short History of Nearly Everything (), in this illustrated trip through, well, nearly everything. A Short History of Nearly Everything Summary. Author Bill Bryson begins A Short History of Nearly Everything by saying that he’s glad the reader can join him, especially because the reader—like every other living being—only exists because of a long chain of history, starting with atoms and resulting in complex life.
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