A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

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It was one of the bestselling popular science books of 2005 in the United Kingdom, selling over 300,000 copies. In the 20th century we entered a “century of science where many people wouldn’t understand anything and no one understand everything. Adapted from A Short History of Nearly Everything, this stunningly illustrated book from Bill Bryson takes us from the Big Bang to the dawn of science, and everything in between! Curiously, this little wonder does leave you feeling that one person truly can make a difference -- whether for good or evil.

The value in this book is its survey of earth’s history (as a planet within the Milky Way) and humankind’s scientific advancements as well as the people responsible.You would be right, but what is 15 years when measured against, millenniums, or, actually, even millions of years.

If you burned this book now, its matter would be changed to ash and smoke, but the total amount of ‘stuff’ in the universe would be the same. Ook hun karakter, anekdotes en hun onderzoek wordt op een toegankelijke manier beschreven ook geschikt voor niet-wetenschappers. Remember, “If you burned this book now, its matter would be changed to ash and smoke, but the total amount of ‘stuff’ in the universe would be the same. The "Grown-Ups" version is one of my favourite non-fiction books, so reading the children's version to my 6 and 8 year olds as bedtime reading was a no-brainer. When we die our atoms will disassemble and move off to find new uses elsewhere—as part of a leaf or other human being or drop of dew.Everyone needs more understanding of the world around us and the history of science is sadly neglected in our schools ('much more important than the history of monarchs). It was difficult getting them to concentrate on ideas that were new, overwhelming and difficult to grasp at the end of a day. His next book, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, is a memoir of growing up in 1950s America, featuring another appearance from his old friend Stephen Katz. So when the YA version caught my eye, I jumped to the chance to learn stuff about nearly everything again.

I highly recommend this as "bedtime reading" to anyone over six or seven but under twelve years of age; teens may find the information a bit too simple or uninteresting. I find the title -- "A Really Short History of Nearly Everything" a bit "sneaky" and particularly instructive in that when you look at the fact that humans have been on this planet for 0. Zo kun je er bijvoorbeeld achterkomen dat de opa van Darwin Josiah Wedgwood was van het bekende servies bedrijf Wedgwood.As the name says, it covers everything from cosmology to evolution, in a fantastic way that even children can understand in a way that makes sense.

The illustrations in the book were gorgeous though and I found most of the time when I was getting annoyed with the info dump I was receiving the images on the page could help to make up for it. Los humanos conductualmente modernos llevamos por aquí sólo un 0,0001 % más o menos de la historia de la Tierra…, casi nada, en realidad, pero incluso existir durante ese breve espacio de tiempo ha exigido una cadena casi interminable de buena suerte.I started this book primarily because the completeist in me wanted to tick one off in completing the Bill Bryson set of books (I have one more to go).