A Short History of Nearly Everything: The bestselling popular science book of the 21st Century (Bryson, 5)

A Short History of Nearly Everything: The bestselling popular science book of the 21st Century (Bryson, 5)

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Beschreibung

The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 million copies.

Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand 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. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science.

The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
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Klasse Übersicht über Wissenschaftsgeschichte!

3

A Short History of Nearly Everything von Bill Bryson gibt einen interessanten Überblick über die Geschichte des Universums, der Erde und der Menschheit. Das Buch ist wirklich vollgepackt mit Informationen, für meinen Geschmack fast ein bisschen zu sehr. Ich habe das Buch über einen ziemlich langen Zeitraum gelesen, dann sobald ich ein Kapitel beendet hatte, hatte ich das Gefühl Zeit zu brauchen um all die Informationen zu verarbeiten, bevor ich weiterlesen konnte. Dennoch habe ich schon jetzt, ein paar Wochen nachdem ich das Buch beendet habe, das Gefühl vieles wieder vergessen zu haben. Zudem schweift Bryson auch immer wieder etwas ab indem er fast mehr über die Leben der Wissenschaftler schreibt, als über die Wissenschaft selbst. Zwar waren diese Anekdoten oftmals interessant oder amüsant, doch ich hätte mir mehr gewünscht, dass die Wissenschaftlichen Konzepte und Ideen etwas ausführlicher hätten behandelt werden können. Auch ist das Buch bereits 2003 erschienen und ich hätte mir gewünscht, dass in den neueren Versionen vielleicht einige Inhalte etwas hätten aktualisiert werden können, da ich teilweise das Gefühl hatte das gewisse Dinge nicht mehr auf dem neusten Stand sind. Insgesamt war das Buch dennoch interessant und bietet zumindest einen Überblick über eine Vielzahl von Themen.

5

Loved it. Really, everyone should read this book. You learn so much from it, you start to think about stuff you never thought about before and you will spend hours on Google researching topics that sparked your interest. And on top of it, it's so much fun to read ♥

4

Gives really an accurate , well written overview of some fundamental science knowledge one should at least have heard of. Even though published in 2003 a lot of it is still up to date. Would be interesting to have an updated version for today, because a lot has happened in the last 13 years, with many new evidence provided for some of the introduced theories. I liked that Bill Bryson always took the time to tell us something about the scientist behind the science, especially their partly miserable lives. I think the mentioned quote of Humboldt was the most fitting: "... there are three stages in scientific discovery: first, people deny it is true; then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person."

Dnf... just not the right time for this book right now...

4

Gives really an accurate , well written overview of some fundamental science knowledge one should at least have heard of. Even though published in 2003 a lot of it is still up to date. Would be interesting to have an updated version for today, because a lot has happened in the last 13 years, with many new evidence provided for some of the introduced theories. I liked that Bill Bryson always took the time to tell us something about the scientist behind the science, especially their partly miserable lives. I think the mentioned quote of Humboldt was the most fitting: "... there are three stages in scientific discovery: first, people deny it is true; then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person."

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