Science has never been more involving or entertaining. Textbooks and teachers alike did not ignite the passion for knowledge in him, mainly because they never delved in the whys, hows, and whens. 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. He writes that science was a distant, unexplained subject at school. In it, he explores time from the Big Bang to the discovery of quantum mechanics, via evolution and geology.īill Bryson wrote this book because he was dissatisfied with his scientific knowledge-that was, not much at all. It was one of the bestselling popular science books of 2005 in the United Kingdom, selling over 300,000 copies.Ī Short History deviates from Bryson's popular travel book genre, instead describing general sciences such as chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything by American author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas of science, using easily accessible language that appeals more so to the general public than many other books dedicated to the subject. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, the bestselling author of One Summer, confronts his greatest challenge yet: to understandand, if possible, answerthe oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |