A short history of nearly everything

By:

Bryson, Bill

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Black Swan 2003Description: 666pISBN:

9781784161859

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

500 BRY

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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Plaksha University Library	Natural Science	500 BRY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		001943

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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

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