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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I love science, and the way Bill Bryson connects everything with everything is brilliant. ( ) It took me a long time to finish this, not because it was a bad book book, but because it was so thought provoking I had to allow time to think about what Bryson wrote. His final section on DNA analysis was the most helpful thing I've read on this topic (particularly as it relates to genealogical research). Despite all good comments and ratings I was a little bit insecure about this book, what finally made me to give it a chance was the review of Patrick Rothfuss, one of my favorites authors, and he wasn't wrong. What an excellent reading, sometimes I felt my head was going to explode with a lot of information but every single page was worth to read and after reading it, all I can say is that science is pretty close to "I only know that I know nothing," maybe we never will. I don't know, I just never get really into the space stuff, and the anthro is well out of date already. All I have to say is I'm glad I finally finished this book. It took me forever. It seems unfair to give it two stars because it is well researched and impressively put together - - but three stars would mean "I liked it", and I really can't say I did. I tolerated it. I appreciated the educational value of it. But liked it? Unfortunately no. The good news though is that in the progression from physics to biology to anthropology, it became increasingly interesting to me, and you could tell that Bryson also had a better grasp on the subject matter. The anthropology section was interesting enough that it makes me want to read a book on that subject alone. I recall touching upon the development of man in school, but clearly the details were lacking. I had no idea there were so many competing theories. All in all, for the right reader, I can see why this book is beloved. It delivers on the promise of its title. It just seemed to focus too much on the people involved for my taste and really didn't quite explain the science well enough for me to truly grasp it. I muscled through.
The more I read of ''A Short History of Nearly Everything,'' the more I was convinced that Bryson had achieved exactly what he'd set out to do, and, moreover, that he'd done it in stylish, efficient, colloquial and stunningly accurate prose. "Una breve historia de casi todo" explica como ha evolucionado el mundo para acabar siendo lo que es hoy. Explica cualquier aspecto de nuestro universo, desde el más recóndito al más conocido. The book's underlying strength lies in the fact that Bryson knows what it's like to find science dull or inscrutable. Unlike scientists who turn their hand to popular writing, he can claim to have spent the vast majority of his life to date knowing very little about how the universe works. ContainsIs abridged inHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsWhitcoulls Top 100 Books (77 – 2008) Whitcoulls Top 100 Books (43 – 2010) Notable Lists
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HTML: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 involvin No library descriptions found. |
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