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. It was one of the bestselling popular science …
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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. It was one of the bestselling popular science books of 2005 in the United Kingdom, selling over 300,000 copies.
A Short History deviates from Bryson's popular travel book genre, instead describing general sciences such as chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics. In it, he explores time from the Big Bang to the discovery of quantum mechanics, via evolution and geology.
Bill Bryson wrote this book because he was dissatisfied with his scientific knowledge—that was, not much at all. He writes that science was a distant, unexplained subject at school. Textbooks and teachers alike did not ignite the passion for knowledge in him, mainly because they never delved in the whys, hows, and whens.
The ebook can be found elsewhere on the web at: www.huzheng.org/bookstore/AShortHistoryofNearlyEverything.pdf
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A short history of nearly everything
Hardcover, 544 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2003 by Broadway Books.
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- 978-0-7679-0817-7Copied ISBN!
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A short history of nearly everything
544 pages
English language
Published Aug. 26, 2004
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- 978-0-7679-0818-4Copied ISBN!
Eine kurze Geschichte von fast allem
672 pages
German language
Published Aug. 26, 2005
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- 978-3-442-46071-7Copied ISBN!
A short history of nearly everything
Paperback, 688 pages
English language
Published Feb. 11, 2004 by Black Swan, Brand: Broadway Books.
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- 978-0-552-15174-0Copied ISBN!
Breve storia di (quasi) tutto
Paperback, 592 pages
Italian language
Published April 3, 2019 by TEA.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-502-5481-1Copied ISBN!
A short history of nearly everything
544 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2003 by Doubleday Canada.
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- 978-0-385-66003-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 51496460
A Short History of Nearly Everything
624 pages
English language
Published Oct. 8, 2006 by Anchor Canada.
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- 978-0-385-66355-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 70062652
Una breve historia de casi todo / A Short History of Nearly Everything
Hardcover, 624 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 1, 2006 by Rba.
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- 978-84-7871-798-9Copied ISBN!
A Short History of Nearly Everything
E-book
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2010 by Transworld.
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- 978-1-4090-9549-1Copied ISBN!
A Short History of Nearly Everything
688 pages
English language
Published May 31, 2004
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- 978-0-552-99704-1Copied ISBN!
A short history of nearly everything
939 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2003 by Random House Large Print.
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- 978-0-375-43200-2Copied ISBN!
A Short History of Nearly Everything
668 pages
English language
Published Feb. 11, 2016 by Transworld Publishers Limited.
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- 978-1-78416-185-9Copied ISBN!
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Electronic resource
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2003 by Broadway Books.
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- 978-0-7679-1641-7Copied ISBN!
A Short History of Nearly Everything
544 pages
English language
Published Feb. 11, 2004
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- 978-0-385-66004-4Copied ISBN!
A Short History of Nearly Everything
624 pages
English language
Published Oct. 5, 2010 by Crown Publishing Group.
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- 978-0-307-88515-9Copied ISBN!
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