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A short history of nearly everything

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2004 Penguin Random House LondonDescription: 666 pISBN:
  • 9780552997041
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 500 B7S4
Summary: Bill 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. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/326805/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-by-bill-bryson/9781784161859
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 27-B / Slot 1325 (0 Floor, East Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 500 B7S4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PM (13/03/2018) p.194 188162

Bill 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.



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