A Short History of Nearly Everything

Informationen zum Autor Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling books include The Road to Little Dribbling , Notes from a Small Island , A Walk in the Woods , One Summer and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid . In a national poll, Notes from a Small Island was voted the book that best represents Britain. His acclaimed work of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything , won the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and is the biggest selling non-fiction book of the 21st century. The Body: A Guide for Occupants was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and is an international bestseller. Bill Bryson was Chancellor of Durham University 2005-2011. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in England. Klappentext On his travels through time and space! he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly eccentric! competitive! obsessive and foolish scientists! like the painfully shy Henry Cavendish who worked out many conundrums like how much the Earth weighed! but never bothered to tell anybody about many of his findings. In the company of such extraordinary people! Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey! and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before. Zusammenfassung Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Bryson
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2004
• EAN: 9780552151740
• ISBN: 978-0-552-15174-0
• No. of pages: 685
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 178 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Black Swan Paperbacks; Bryson; Black Swan Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Naturwissenschaft, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, SCIENCE / Chemistry / General, SCIENCE / Physics / Atomic & Molecular, chemistry, History of Science, Physics, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Geology & The Lithosphere