01973nam a22002417a 4500 20220218162929.0 220218b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0767908171 Aloy eng 23 500 BRYS Bill Bryson 21223 Short History of Nearly Everything New York Broadways Books 2003 ix,544 p. HB 24x16 cm. 27.50 $ 27.50 One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining. Cosmos 21212 Dangerous Planet 21213 Solar System 21214 BRYSON (Bill) 21215 ddc GF 221570 221570 0 0 ddc 0 0 GEN AL AL 2013-03-24 0.00 0 500 BRYS GF03095 2022-02-18 00:00:00 0.00 2022-02-18 GF