A Short History of Nearly Everything (豆瓣)

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作者: Bill Bryson

ISBN: 9780767908184
页数: 560 页
定价: USD 16.95
出版社: Broadway
装帧: Paperback
出版年: 2004-09-14

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　　From primordial nothingness to this very moment, A Short History of Nearly Everything reports what happened and how humans figured it out. To accomplish this daunting literary task, Bill Bryson uses hundreds of sources, from popular science books to interviews with luminaries in various fields. His aim is to help people like him, who rejected stale school textbooks an... (展开全部) 　　From primordial nothingness to this very moment, A Short History of Nearly Everything reports what happened and how humans figured it out. To accomplish this daunting literary task, Bill Bryson uses hundreds of sources, from popular science books to interviews with luminaries in various fields. His aim is to help people like him, who rejected stale school textbooks and dry explanations, to appreciate how we have used science to understand the smallest particles and the unimaginably vast expanses of space. With his distinctive prose style and wit, Bryson succeeds admirably. Though A Short History clocks in at a daunting 500-plus pages and covers the same material as every science book before it, it reads something like a particularly detailed novel (albeit without a plot). Each longish chapter is devoted to a topic like the age of our planet or how cells work, and these chapters are grouped into larger sections such as "The Size of the Earth" and "Life Itself." Bryson chats with experts like Richard Fortey (author of Life and Trilobite) and these interviews are charming. But it's when Bryson dives into some of science's best and most embarrassing fights--Cope vs. Marsh, Conway Morris vs. Gould--that he finds literary gold. --Therese Littleton --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
　　
　　
　　 As the title suggests, bestselling author Bryson (In a Sunburned Country) sets out to put his irrepressible stamp on all things under the sun. As he states at the outset, this is a book about life, the universe and everything, from the Big Bang to the ascendancy of Homo sapiens. "This is a book about how it happened," the author writes. "In particular how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since." What follows is a brick of a volume summarizing moments both great and curious in the history of science, covering already well-trod territory in the fields of cosmology, astronomy, paleontology, geology, chemistry, physics and so on. Bryson relies on some of the best material in the history of science to have come out in recent years. This is great for Bryson fans, who can encounter this material in its barest essence with the bonus of having it served up in Bryson's distinctive voice. But readers in the field will already have studied this information more in-depth in the originals and may find themselves questioning the point of a breakneck tour of the sciences that contributes nothing novel. Nevertheless, to read Bryson is to travel with a memoirist gifted with wry observation and keen insight that shed new light on things we mistake for commonplace. To accompany the author as he travels with the likes of Charles Darwin on the Beagle, Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton is a trip worth taking for most readers.
　　Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
　　
　　
　　 Confessing to an aversion to science dating to his 1950s school days, Bryson here writes for those of like mind, perhaps out of guilt about his lack of literacy on the subject. Bryson reports he has been doing penance by reading popular-science literature published in the past decade or two, and buttonholing a few science authors, such as Richard Fortey (Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution, 2000). The authors Bryson talks to are invariably enthusiasts who, despite their eminence, never look on his questions as silly but, rather, view them as welcome indicators of interest and curiosity. Making science less intimidating is Bryson's essential selling point as he explores an atom; a cell; light; the age and fate of the earth; the origin of human beings. Bryson's organization is historical and his prose heavy on humanizing anecdotes about the pioneers of physics, chemistry, geology, biology, evolution and paleontology, or cosmology. To those acquainted with the popular-science writing Bryson has digested, his repackaging is a trip down memory lane, but to his fellow science-phobes, Bryson' s tour has the same eye-opening quality to wonder and amazement as his wildly popular travelogues. Gilbert Taylor
　　Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
　　
　　
　　 ?Stylish [and] stunningly accurate prose. We learn what the material world is like from the smallest quark to the largest galaxy and at all the levels in between . . . brims with strange and amazing facts . . . destined to become a modern classic of science writing.? -- The New York Times
　　
　　?Bryson has made a career writing hilarious travelogues, and in many ways his latest is more of the same, except that this time Bryson hikes through the world of science.? -- People
　　
　　?Bryson is surprisingly precise, brilliantly eccentric and nicely eloquent . . . a gifted storyteller has dared to retell the world?s biggest story.? -- Seattle Times
　　
　　?Hefty, highly researched and eminently readable.? -- Simon Winchester, The Globe and Mail
　　
　　?All non-scientists (and probably many specialized scientists, too) can learn a great deal from his lucid and amiable explanations.? -- National Post
　　
　　"Bryson is a terrific stylist. You can?t help but enjoy his writing, for its cheer and buoyancy, and for the frequent demonstration of his peculiar, engaging turn of mind.? -- Ottawa Citizen
　　
　　?Wonderfully readable. It is, in the best sense, learned.? -- Winnipeg Free Press -- Review
　　
　　
　　 “Stylish [and] stunningly accurate prose. We learn what the material world is like from the smallest quark to the largest galaxy and at all the levels in between . . . brims with strange and amazing facts . . . destined to become a modern classic of science writing.”
　　—The New York Times
　　
　　“Bryson has made a career writing hilarious travelogues, and in many ways his latest is more of the same, except that this time Bryson hikes through the world of science.”
　　—People
　　
　　“Bryson is surprisingly precise, brilliantly eccentric and nicely eloquent . . . a gifted storyteller has dared to retell the world’s biggest story.”
　　—Seattle Times
　　
　　“Hefty, highly researched and eminently readable.”
　　—Simon Winchester, The Globe and Mail
　　
　　“All non-scientists (and probably many specialized scientists, too) can learn a great deal from his lucid and amiable explanations.”
　　—National Post
　　
　　"Bryson is a terrific stylist. You can’t help but enjoy his writing, for its cheer and buoyancy, and for the frequent demonstration of his peculiar, engaging turn of mind.”
　　—Ottawa Citizen
　　
　　“Wonderfully readable. It is, in the best sense, learned.”
　　—Winnipeg Free Press　　

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yyb行百里者半九十

第一次见到这本书，是两年前地铁站的门口，一堆盗版英文书之间，我一下子就被这个书名所吸引了，但后来不知怎的没有买它，也许当时并没有像现在一样能沉下心读600页书的心境吧。前几天在西单图书大厦地下一层又见到它，毫不犹豫地就买了下来，但断断续续用了很久才读完，大部分时间是在早上上班的地铁上读。其实这本书不能在地铁上...... (1回应)

2009-09-16 4/4有用来自 Black Swan2004版

a popular science book from a great travel book ...
DJ Wombat

After reading the book, I know why Bill Bryson is called "English Master". He easily combines so many things into one book. Following his guidance, you travel f......

2006-10-07 2/2有用来自 Random House Large Print版

科学和科学家的故事，多刺激，无笑点，很感人
moviejunkie(要不咱就永远年轻永远热泪盈眶吧)

当然这个无笑点是针对bill bryson其他的每一段落都让人笑到肚子疼的大作而言。如果用随便一本普通的科普读物作参照，你会觉得该书它不是科普是哲学的幽默（不要问什么是哲学的幽默，俺不知道！）。讲述分子质子基因光年化石的字里行间充满了对人类这个历史长河中渺小无知的沧海一粟的角色的反思。本读者文科出生，所以该书的...... (1回应)

2009-10-28 1/1有用来自 Black Swan2004版

A short history of nearly everything
Tiger

We are luck. We are vulnerable. We shall respect the Nature. ......

2009-11-17 来自 Black Swan2004版

Interesting in the first half, a bit boring in t...
bobmiao

This book was given to me as a gift by an American friend. It is the special illustrated edition. I read the first half with great interest, and flipped thro...... (3回应)

2006-01-14 来自 Random House Large Print版