| Publication |
New York, Broadway Books, 2003.
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| Description |
624pThick Blue Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
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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| Contents |
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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| Standard Number |
9780307885159 Pb.
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