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From primordial
nothingness to this very moment, A Short History of Nearly
Everything reports what happened and how humans figured it out.
To accomplish this daunting literary task, Bill Bryson uses
hundreds of sources, from popular science books to interviews with
luminaries in various fields. His aim is to help people like him,
who rejected stale school textbooks and dry explanations, to
appreciate how we have used science to understand the smallest
particles and the
內容簡介：
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes
his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable
questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian
Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he
confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer.
Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to
understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest
questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as
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. To that end, he has attached himself to a
host of the world’s most advanced and often obsessed
archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to
their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read or tried
to read their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed
himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly
Everything is the record of this quest, and it 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. Science has never been more involving or
entertaining.
From the Hardcover edition.
目錄：
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART 1 LOST IN THE COSMOS
1 How to Build a Universe
2 Welcome to the Solar System
3 The Reverend Evans''s Universe
PART 2 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 3 A NEW AGE DAWNS
8 Einstein''s Universe
9 The Mighty Atom
lO Getting the Lead Out
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