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A Short History of Nearly Everything

Audiobook

A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.
His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out?
On his travels through time and space, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.


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Publisher: Transworld Edition: Abridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781407083667
  • File size: 166946 KB
  • Release date: April 1, 2010
  • Duration: 05:47:48

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781407083667
  • File size: 166971 KB
  • Release date: April 1, 2010
  • Duration: 05:50:45
  • Number of parts: 5

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Lexile® Measure:1190
Text Difficulty:9-12

A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.
His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out?
On his travels through time and space, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.


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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Transworld
    Edition:
    Abridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781407083667
    File size: 166946 KB
    Release date: April 1, 2010
    Duration: 05:47:48

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781407083667
    File size: 166971 KB
    Release date: April 1, 2010
    Duration: 05:50:45
    Number of parts: 5

  • Creators
  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    Lexile® Measure: 1190
    Text Difficulty: 9-12
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