A short history of nearly everything 2.0 / Bill Bryson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryson, Bill, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Popular works.

Science.

Genre:

Popular works

Physical Description:

635 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Fully revised and updated.

Place of Publication:

London : Doubleday, 2025.

Summary:

Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened in the history of the earth, from the Big Bang theory to the rise of civilization and beyond—revised to reflect the last two decades of scientific advancement. How did we get from being nothing at all to where we are today? How did the age of the dinosaurs eventually give way to the age of the iPhone? In this completely revised update to the international phenomenon A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson returns to answer these questions and many more. Bryson brings a groundbreaking account of life itself to a new generation of readers and wonderers, as he takes subjects often passed off as boring and incomprehensible and renders them accessible, fascinating, and outright amusing to anyone who's ever wondered about the world around them. Introducing readers to a long list of the world's most impressive archaeologists, paleontologists, physicists, astronomers, anthropologists, and mathematicians—from their offices and laboratories to dig sites and field camps—Bryson embarks on a journey to discover answers to the biggest questions about the universe and ourselves. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 is a profoundly enlightening, surprisingly humorous, and charmingly clever adventure into the realm of human knowledge, as only Bryson can render it. His revamped Short History is a thrilling journey through time and space, and his writing will make readers both new and old see the world in a whole new way.

Contents:

Lost in the cosmos: How to build a universe; Welcome to the solar system; Reverend Evans's universe

Size of the earth: Measure of things; Stone-breakers; Science red in tooth and claw; Elemental matters

New age dawns: Einstein's universe; Mighty atom; Getting the lead out; Muster Mark's quarks; Earth moves

Dangerous planet: Bang! ; Fire below; Dangerous beauty

Life itself: Lonely planet ; Into the troposphere; Bounding main; Rise of life; Small world; Life goes on; Good-bye to all that; Richness of being; Cells; Darwin's singular notion; The stuff of life

Road to us: Ice time; Mysterious biped; Restless ape; Good-bye.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781529966817

1529966817

9781529941050

1529941059

OCLC:

1519443973

Publisher Number:

CIPO000268709

90104363416