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016939
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London, Doubleday, 2002.
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49pBrown Spine
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Bryson visits Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to eradicating poverty. Kenya is a land of contrasts, with famous game reserves and a vibrant culture. It also provides plenty to worry a traveller like Bill Bryson, fixated as he is on the dangers posed by snakes, insects and large predators. It is also a country with many serious problems: refugees, AIDS, drought, and grinding poverty. The resultant diary, though short in length, contains the trademark Bryson stamp of wry observation and curious insight.
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0767915062 Hb.
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| 016374 | 916.76204/BRY | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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026451
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London, Black Swan, 2007.
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404pWhite and red spine
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Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. In this memoir, he explores the ordinary kid he once was, and the curious world of 1950s America.
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Preface and Acknowledgements
Hometown
Welcome to Kid World
Birth of a Superhero
The Age of Excitement
The Pursuit of Pleasure
Sex and Other Distractions
Boom!
Schooldays
Man at Work
Down on the Farm
What, Me Worry?
Out and About
The Pubic Years
Farewell
Bibliography
Illustrations
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9780552155465 Pb.
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| I02600 | 910.4092/BRY | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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007776
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Great Britain, Random House, 2003.
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169pSilver Spine
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Explores the mysteries of time and space and how, against all odds, life came to be on the wondrous planet we call home.
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9780385614801 Hb.
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| 008147 | 500/BRY | Main | On Shelf | General | Reference |
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002733
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Great Britain, HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.
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200pRed Spine
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Eminent Lives
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The wild speculation and conspiracy theory surrounding Shakespeare are cut through and the writer's life is evealed. It's a biography which does justice to Shakespeare's achievement.
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9780007274024 Hb.
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| 004258 | 921/SHA | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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015970
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New York, Broadway Books, 2003.
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624pThick Blue Spine
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In A Short History of Nearly Everything, beloved author Bill Bryson 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.
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Part One. Lost in the cosmos. 1. How to build a universe; 2. Welcome to the Solar System; 3. The Reverend Evans's universe
Part Two. The size of the Earth. 4. The measure of things; 5. The stone-breakers; 6. Science red in tooth and claw; 7. Elemental matters
Part 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
Part Four. Dangerous planet. 13. Bang!; 14. The fire below; 15. Dangerous beauty
Part five. Life itself. 16. Lonely plante; 17. Into the troposphere; 18. The bounding main; 19. The rise of life; 20. Small world; 21. Life goes on; 22. Goodbye to all that; 23. The richness of being; 24. Cells; 25. Darwin's singular notion; 26. The stuff of life
Part Six. The road to us. 27. Ice time; 28. The mysterious biped; 29. The restless ape; 30. Goodbye
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9780307885159 Pb.
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| I00653 | 500/BRY | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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