A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated EditionThis new edition of the acclaimed bestseller is lavishly illustrated to convey, in pictures as in words, Bill Bryson’s exciting, informative journey into the world of science. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, the bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, confronts his greatest challenge yet: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as his 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. The result 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. Now, in this handsome new edition, Bill Bryson’s words are supplemented by full-color artwork that explains in visual terms the concepts and wonder of science, at the same time giving face to the major players in the world of scientific study. Eloquently and entertainingly described, as well as richly illustrated, science has never been more involving or entertaining. |
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... Measure of Things 5 The Stone-Breakers 6 Science Red in Tooth and Claw 7 Elemental Matters THREE: A NEW AGE DAWNS 8 Einstein's Universe 9 The Mighty Atom 10 Getting the Lead Out 11 Muster Mark's Quarks 12 The Earth Moves FOUR: DANGEROUS ...
... Measure of Things 5 The Stone-Breakers 6 Science Red in Tooth and Claw 7 Elemental Matters THREE: A NEW AGE DAWNS 8 Einstein's Universe 9 The Mighty Atom 10 Getting the Lead Out 11 Muster Mark's Quarks 12 The Earth Moves FOUR: DANGEROUS ...
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... measure, as we shall see further on. All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way. There is of course ...
... measure, as we shall see further on. All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way. There is of course ...
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... measure of instability into the nothingness that was. It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can. It may be that our ...
... measure of instability into the nothingness that was. It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can. It may be that our ...
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... measure in the solar system is the Astronomical Unit, or AU, representing the distance from the Sun to the Earth. Pluto is about 40 AUs from us, the heart of the Oort cloud about fifty thousand. In a word, it is remote. But let's ...
... measure in the solar system is the Astronomical Unit, or AU, representing the distance from the Sun to the Earth. Pluto is about 40 AUs from us, the heart of the Oort cloud about fifty thousand. In a word, it is remote. But let's ...
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... measure the brightness (and hence relative distance) of other stars, and thus to measure the expansion rate of the universe. In 1987 Saul Perlmutter at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California, needing more Ia supernovae than ...
... measure the brightness (and hence relative distance) of other stars, and thus to measure the expansion rate of the universe. In 1987 Saul Perlmutter at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California, needing more Ia supernovae than ...
Contents
The StoneBreakers | |
Science Red in Tooth and Claw | |
Elemental Matters | |
The Rise of Life | |
Small World | |
Life Goes | |
Goodbye to All That | |
The Richness of Being | |
Cells | |
Darwins Singular Notion | |
The Stuff of Life | |
Einsteins Universe | |
The Mighty Atom | |
Getting the Lead | |
Muster Marks Quarks | |
The Earth Moves | |
Bang | |
The Fire Below | |
Dangerous Beauty | |
Lonely Planet | |
Into the Troposphere | |
The Bounding Main | |
Ice Time | |
The Mysterious Biped | |
The Restless | |
Goodbye | |
DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | |
NOTES | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
ILLUSTRATIONS | |
INDEX | |
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