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A really short history of nearly everything / Bill Bryson ; [illustrations by Yuliya Somina ; additional illustrations by Martin Sanders].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Delacorte Press, [2009], ©2008.Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 169 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cmContent type:
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  • 9780385738101
  • 0385738102
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Contents:
LOST IN THE COSMOS. How to they know that?: finding out about our planet -- Cooking up a universe: recipe for an explosion -- The Big Bang: what came next -- Hi! Glad you could make it!: how DID you get here? -- Listening to the Big Bang: cosmic radiation and you -- To the edge of the universe: how far is it? -- Journey into space: our vast solar system -- Looking for Pluto: the new dwarf planet -- Journey's end: the Voyager expeditions -- Who's out there?: advanced life elsewhere in the cosmos? -- The supernova searcher: the amazing Reverend Bob Evans: -- THE SIZE OF THE EARTH. Back on Earth: Newton and gravity -- Measuring the earth: finding the circumference -- Earth's bulge: our planet is not a sphere -- How far around?: two ill-fated measuring expeditions -- Tracking Venus: following Venus in transit -- Weighing earth: gravity and Shiehallion -- Featherweight measures: Cavendish's calculations -- Finding earth's age: the new science of geology -- The stone-breakers: the Geological Society -- Slow and stready does it: Lyell and tectonic plates -- Finding fossils: mapping Britain's rock layers -- Dating the rocks: the great eras of geological time -- Tooth and claw: digging up strange bones -- Dinosaur hunters: 'terrible lizards' -- It's bone time: bones and Earth's age -- The mighty atom: Dalton weighs atoms -- A matter of chemistry: adding to the elements -- The periodic table: Mendeleyev instills some order -- Glowing elements: Marie Curie and deadly radiation -- A NEW AGE DAWNS. Einstein the genius: the special theory of relativity -- Spacetime: time has a shape -- The big picture: the Hubble space telescope -- 'Bad' science: lead and CFCs -- A meteoric age: measuring meteorites -- DANGEROUS PLANET. Travelling trilobites: Pangaea and the fossil record -- Crust crunching: the discovery of tectonic plates -- All adrift: Where does all the sediment go? -- The fire below: the Earth beneath our feet -- Boom!: the eruption of Mount St. Helens -- Yellowstone Park: a volcano in waiting -- Big quakes: measuring earthquakes -- Impact from space: meteors and the KT extinction -- Asteroid hit: rocky objects heading for us? -- LIFE ITSELF. Our tiny patch: a comfortable place to be -- Earth's blanket: the atmosphere that protects us -- Wild and windy: earth's weather -- Hot-water bottle: the effect of the oceans -- Awash with water: a watery planet -- Down in the deep: living on the ocean floor -- Protein soup: oceans, where life started -- Battling bacteria: the coming of microbes -- Your mini world: the bacteria that feed on us -- Making you ill: infectious organisms -- Citizen cells: you and your cells -- How long can you stay?: adapt or die -- A runaway success: trilobites and other fossils -- Time to get started: earth's long pre-human history -- Out of the sea: when creatures took to the land -- Where did we come from? From reptiles to mammals -- Comings and goings: the great extinctions -- Labeling life: the classification of plants and animals -- Can't count?: Earth's unknown creatures -- Journey to the future: Darwin and 'On the origin of species' -- The quiet monk: Mendel and the study of genes -- One big happy family: inheritance and chromosomes -- Chain of life: Crick and Watson, and DNA -- THE ROAD TO US. Hot and cold: ice sheets and climate -- Chilly times: Living in an ice age -- Skull and bones: discovering early human remains -- Lucy: the most famous australopithecine -- From there to here: the rise of Homo sapiens -- Tool-makers: inventors of the first technology -- Humans take over: extermination and extinction -- What now? A polluted planet -- Goodbye: our planet and us.
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  • Examines the "how" and the the "who" of scientific discovery. Explores the mysteries of time and space, and how, against all odds, life came to be on the wonderous planet we call home.
Summary: Short, illustrated segments explore the history of science. Examines the "how" and the the "who" of scientific discovery. Explores the mysteries of time and space, and how, against all odds, life came to be on the wonderous planet we call home.- - Source other than Library of Congress.Summary: Examines the "how" and the the "who" of scientific discovery. Explores the mysteries of time and space, and how, against all odds, life came to be on the wonderous planet we call home.- - Source other than Library of Congress.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Explore the mysteries of the universe without ever leaving your home! Bill Bryson takes on the world of science and answers questions big and small, perfect for curious readers looking to learn outside of the classroom!

Did you know that:

* Every atom in your body has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to being you?

* If you are an average-sized kid, you have enough potential energy inside you to explode with the force of several hydrogen bombs?

And--What happened to dinosaurs? How big is the universe? Why are oceans salty? Is a meteor going to hit us?

Tackling everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bill Bryson's inimitable storytelling skill makes the why, how, and, just as importantly, the who of scientific discovery entertaining and accessible for young readers.

Originally published: Newly illustrated, abridged, and adapted ed. London : Doubleday, 2008.

Adaptation of: A short history of nearly everything.

Short, illustrated segments explore the history of science. Examines the "how" and the the "who" of scientific discovery. Explores the mysteries of time and space, and how, against all odds, life came to be on the wonderous planet we call home.- - Source other than Library of Congress.

Examines the "how" and the the "who" of scientific discovery. Explores the mysteries of time and space, and how, against all odds, life came to be on the wonderous planet we call home.- - Source other than Library of Congress.

Includes index.

LOST IN THE COSMOS. How to they know that?: finding out about our planet -- Cooking up a universe: recipe for an explosion -- The Big Bang: what came next -- Hi! Glad you could make it!: how DID you get here? -- Listening to the Big Bang: cosmic radiation and you -- To the edge of the universe: how far is it? -- Journey into space: our vast solar system -- Looking for Pluto: the new dwarf planet -- Journey's end: the Voyager expeditions -- Who's out there?: advanced life elsewhere in the cosmos? -- The supernova searcher: the amazing Reverend Bob Evans: -- THE SIZE OF THE EARTH. Back on Earth: Newton and gravity -- Measuring the earth: finding the circumference -- Earth's bulge: our planet is not a sphere -- How far around?: two ill-fated measuring expeditions -- Tracking Venus: following Venus in transit -- Weighing earth: gravity and Shiehallion -- Featherweight measures: Cavendish's calculations -- Finding earth's age: the new science of geology -- The stone-breakers: the Geological Society -- Slow and stready does it: Lyell and tectonic plates -- Finding fossils: mapping Britain's rock layers -- Dating the rocks: the great eras of geological time -- Tooth and claw: digging up strange bones -- Dinosaur hunters: 'terrible lizards' -- It's bone time: bones and Earth's age -- The mighty atom: Dalton weighs atoms -- A matter of chemistry: adding to the elements -- The periodic table: Mendeleyev instills some order -- Glowing elements: Marie Curie and deadly radiation -- A NEW AGE DAWNS. Einstein the genius: the special theory of relativity -- Spacetime: time has a shape -- The big picture: the Hubble space telescope -- 'Bad' science: lead and CFCs -- A meteoric age: measuring meteorites -- DANGEROUS PLANET. Travelling trilobites: Pangaea and the fossil record -- Crust crunching: the discovery of tectonic plates -- All adrift: Where does all the sediment go? -- The fire below: the Earth beneath our feet -- Boom!: the eruption of Mount St. Helens -- Yellowstone Park: a volcano in waiting -- Big quakes: measuring earthquakes -- Impact from space: meteors and the KT extinction -- Asteroid hit: rocky objects heading for us? -- LIFE ITSELF. Our tiny patch: a comfortable place to be -- Earth's blanket: the atmosphere that protects us -- Wild and windy: earth's weather -- Hot-water bottle: the effect of the oceans -- Awash with water: a watery planet -- Down in the deep: living on the ocean floor -- Protein soup: oceans, where life started -- Battling bacteria: the coming of microbes -- Your mini world: the bacteria that feed on us -- Making you ill: infectious organisms -- Citizen cells: you and your cells -- How long can you stay?: adapt or die -- A runaway success: trilobites and other fossils -- Time to get started: earth's long pre-human history -- Out of the sea: when creatures took to the land -- Where did we come from? From reptiles to mammals -- Comings and goings: the great extinctions -- Labeling life: the classification of plants and animals -- Can't count?: Earth's unknown creatures -- Journey to the future: Darwin and 'On the origin of species' -- The quiet monk: Mendel and the study of genes -- One big happy family: inheritance and chromosomes -- Chain of life: Crick and Watson, and DNA -- THE ROAD TO US. Hot and cold: ice sheets and climate -- Chilly times: Living in an ice age -- Skull and bones: discovering early human remains -- Lucy: the most famous australopithecine -- From there to here: the rise of Homo sapiens -- Tool-makers: inventors of the first technology -- Humans take over: extermination and extinction -- What now? A polluted planet -- Goodbye: our planet and us.

Examines the "how" and the the "who" of scientific discovery. Explores the mysteries of time and space, and how, against all odds, life came to be on the wonderous planet we call home.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 11. 11 Quiz: 49233.

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