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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 unimaginably vast expanses of space. With his

distinctive prose style and wit, Bryson succeeds admirably. Though

A Short History clocks in at a daunting 500-plus pages and covers

the same material as every science book before it, it reads

something like a particularly detailed novel (albeit without a

plot). Each longish chapter is devoted to a topic like the age of

our planet or how cells work, and these chapters are grouped into

larger sections such as "The Size of the Earth" and "Life Itself."

Bryson chats with experts like Richard Fortey (author of Life and

Trilobite) and these interviews are charming. But it's when Bryson

dives into some of science's best and most embarrassing

fights--Cope vs. Marsh, Conway Morris vs. Gould--that he finds

literary gold. --Therese Littleton --This text refers to the

Hardcover edition.

From Publishers Weekly

As the title suggests, bestselling author Bryson (In a Sunburned

Country) sets out to put his irrepressible stamp on all things

under the sun. As he states at the outset, this is a book about

life, the universe and everything, from the Big Bang to the

ascendancy of Homo sapiens. "This is a book about how it happened,"

the author writes. "In particular how we went from there being

nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of

that something turned into us, and also what happened in between

and since." What follows is a brick of a volume summarizing moments

both great and curious in the history of science, covering already

well-trod territory in the fields of cosmology, astronomy,

paleontology, geology, chemistry, physics and so on. Bryson relies

on some of the best material in the history of science to have come

out in recent years. This is great for Bryson fans, who can

encounter this material in its barest essence with the bonus of

having it served up in Bryson's distinctive voice. But readers in

the field will already have studied this information more in-depth

in the originals and may find themselves questioning the point of a

breakneck tour of the sciences that contributes nothing novel.

Nevertheless, to read Bryson is to travel with a memoirist gifted

with wry observation and keen insight that shed new light on things

we mistake for commonplace. To accompany the author as he travels

with the likes of Charles Darwin on the Beagle, Albert Einstein or

Isaac Newton is a trip worth taking for most readers.

Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers

to the Hardcover edition.

From Booklist

Confessing to an aversion to science dating to his 1950s school

days, Bryson here writes for those of like mind, perhaps out of

guilt about his lack of literacy on the subject. Bryson reports he

has been doing penance by reading popular-science literature

published in the past decade or two, and buttonholing a few science

authors, such as Richard Fortey (Trilobite! Eyewitness to

Evolution, 2000). The authors Bryson talks to are invariably

enthusiasts who, despite their eminence, never look on his

questions as silly but, rather, view them as welcome indicators of

interest and curiosity. Making science less intimidating is

Bryson's essential selling point as he explores an atom; a cell;

light; the age and fate of the earth; the origin of human beings.

Bryson's organization is historical and his prose heavy on

humanizing anecdotes about the pioneers of physics, chemistry,

geology, biology, evolution and paleontology, or cosmology. To

those acquainted with the popular-science writing Bryson has

digested, his repackaging is a trip down memory lane, but to his

fellow science-phobes, Bryson' s tour has the same eye-opening

quality to wonder and amazement as his wildly popular travelogues.

Gilbert Taylor

Copyright © American Library Association. All rights

reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Review

?Stylish [and] stunningly accurate prose. We learn what the

material world is like from the smallest quark to the largest

galaxy and at all the levels in between . . . brims with strange

and amazing facts . . . destined to become a modern classic of

science writing.? -- The New York Times

?Bryson has made a career writing hilarious travelogues, and in

many ways his latest is more of the same, except that this time

Bryson hikes through the world of science.? -- People

?Bryson is surprisingly precise, brilliantly eccentric and nicely

eloquent . . . a gifted storyteller has dared to retell the world?s

biggest story.? -- Seattle Times

?Hefty, highly researched and eminently readable.? -- Simon

Winchester, The Globe and Mail

?All non-scientists (and probably many specialized scientists,

too) can learn a great deal from his lucid and amiable

explanations.? -- National Post

"Bryson is a terrific stylist. You can?t help but enjoy his

writing, for its cheer and buoyancy, and for the frequent

demonstration of his peculiar, engaging turn of mind.? -- Ottawa

Citizen

?Wonderfully readable. It is, in the best sense, learned.? --

Winnipeg Free Press -- Review

Review

“Stylish [and] stunningly accurate prose. We learn what the

material world is like from the smallest quark to the largest

galaxy and at all the levels in between . . . brims with strange

and amazing facts . . . destined to become a modern classic of

science writing.”

—The New York Times

“Bryson has made a career writing hilarious travelogues, and in

many ways his latest is more of the same, except that this time

Bryson hikes through the world of science.”

—People

“Bryson is surprisingly precise, brilliantly eccentric and nicely

eloquent . . . a gifted storyteller has dared to retell the world’s

biggest story.”

—Seattle Times

“Hefty, highly researched and eminently readable.”

—Simon Winchester, The Globe and Mail

“All non-scientists (and probably many specialized scientists,

too) can learn a great deal from his lucid and amiable

explanations.”

—National Post

"Bryson is a terrific stylist. You can’t help but enjoy his

writing, for its cheer and buoyancy, and for the frequent

demonstration of his peculiar, engaging turn of mind.”

—Ottawa Citizen

“Wonderfully readable. It is, in the best sense, learned.”

—Winnipeg Free Press

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: LOST IN THE COSMOS

1. How to Build a Universe

2. Welcome to the Solar System

3. The Reverend Evans's Universe

Part II: 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 III: A NEW AGE DAWNS

8. Einstein's Universe

9. The Might Atom

10. Getting the Lead Out

11. Muster Mark's Quarks

12. The Earth Moves

Part IV: DANGEROUS PLANET

13. Bang!

14. The Fire Below

15. Dangerous Beauty

Part V: LIFE ITSELF

16. Lonely Planet

17. Into the Troposphere

18. The Bounding Main

19. The Rise of Live

20. Small World

21. Life Goes On

22. Good-bye to All That

23. The Richness of Being

24. Cells

25. Darwin's Singular Notion

26. The Stuff of Life

Part VI: THE ROAD TO US

27. Ice Time

28. The Mysterious Biped

29. The Restless Ape

30. Good-bye

Notes

Bibliography

Index

From the Hardcover edition.

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　　“Stylish [and] stunningly accurate prose. We learn what the

material world is like from the smallest quark to the largest

galaxy and at all the levels in between . . . brims with strange

and amazing facts . . . destined to become a modern classic of

science writing.”

　　—The New York Times

　　“Bryson has made a career writing hilarious travelogues, and in

many ways his latest is more of the same, except that this time

Bryson hikes through the world of science.”

　　—People

　　“Bryson is surprisingly precise, brilliantly eccentric and nicely

eloquent . . . a gifted storyteller has dared to retell the world’s

biggest story.”

　　—Seattle Times

　　“Hefty, highly researched and eminently readable.”

　　—Simon Winchester, The Globe and Mail

　　“All non-scientists (and probably many specialized scientists,

too) can learn a great deal from his lucid and amiable

explanations.”

　　—National Post

　　"Bryson is a terrific stylist. You can’t help but enjoy his

writing, for its cheer and buoyancy, and for the frequent

demonstration of his peculiar, engaging turn of mind.”

　　—Ottawa Citizen

　　“Wonderfully readable. It is, in the best sense, learned.”

　　—Winnipeg Free Press

书籍介绍

Bill Bryson is one of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers. In A Short History of Nearly Everything , he takes his ultimate journey–into the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer. It’s a dazzling quest, the intellectual odyssey of a lifetime, as this insatiably curious writer attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. Or, as the author puts it, “…how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since.” This is, in short, a tall order.

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, chemisty, 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, as only this superb writer can render it. Science has never been more involving, and the world we inhabit has never been fuller of wonder and delight.