A short history of nearly everything / (Record no. 9618)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781784161859
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Original cataloging agency FISKH
Language of cataloging eng
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050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number Q162 .B88
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 500
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Bryson, Bill
Relator term Author
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title A short history of nearly everything /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Bill Bryson
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Black Swan ,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2004
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 666 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 20 cm
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In this book Bill Bryson explores the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer and attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound scientific minds, living and dead. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people, like himself, made bored (or scared) stiff of science by school. His interest is not simply to discover what we know but to find out how we know it. How do we know what is in the center of the earth, thousands of miles beneath the surface? How can we know the extent and the composition of the universe, or what a black hole is? How can we know where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through space and time, Bill Bryson encounters a splendid gallery of the most fascinating, eccentric, competitive, and foolish personalities ever to ask a hard question. In their company, he undertakes a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element History of science
Form subdivision Humor
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Evolution
Form subdivision Funny
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