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A Short History of Nearly Everything [Buy it!] | Bryson Bill | USD 12.15 (Tue Jun 4 18:54:40 2024) | Biblio | Ainsworth Books | Toronto: Anchor Canada. Very Good+. Date: 2004. Reprint. Paperback. 0385660049 . Card covers show light shelf wear, crease down back cover.; A bright, solid book.; Trade PB; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 544 pages; "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 worlds 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" . 2004. Anchor Canada ISBN 0385660049 9780385660044 [CA] |