A short history of nearly everything / Bill Bryson.
By: Bryson, Bill.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Black Swan, 2004Description: 688 p. ; 20cm.ISBN: 0552997048 (pbk.).Subject(s): POPULAR SCIENCE | SCIENCE | SCIENCE HISTORY | OVERVIEWSHoldings: GRETA POINT: 001 SHO Summary: "A Short History of Nearly Everything is a quest, the intellectual odyssey of a lifetime, as this curious writer attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization." "To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound scientific minds, living and dead. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people, like himself, made bored (or scared) stiff of science by school. His interest is not simply to discover what we know but to find out how we know it."--BOOK JACKET.Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Originally published : London: Doubleday, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Short History of Nearly Everything is a quest, the intellectual odyssey of a lifetime, as this curious writer attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization." "To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound scientific minds, living and dead. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people, like himself, made bored (or scared) stiff of science by school. His interest is not simply to discover what we know but to find out how we know it."--BOOK JACKET.
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