A Walk in the Woods, Bryson Bill

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: At Home
ISBN: 0767919394 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767919395
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: A Short History of Nearly Everything
ISBN: 076790818X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767908184
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Цена: 12260.00 T
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Описание: One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world's most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything""is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.

"From the Hardcover edition."

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Walk In The Woods, A
ISBN: 0767902521 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767902526
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Описание: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The classic chronicle of a "terribly misguided and terribly funny" (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body

"The best way of escaping into nature."--The New York Times

Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings.

For a start there's the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa along for the walk. But A Walk in the Woods is more than just a laugh-out-loud hike. Bryson's acute eye is a wise witness to this beautiful but fragile trail, and as he tells its fascinating history, he makes a moving plea for the conservation of America's last great wilderness. An adventure, a comedy, and a celebration, A Walk in the Woods is a modern classic of travel literature.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: The Body
ISBN: 0552779903 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552779906
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание:

• July Releases 2020    New titles published this July

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: The Body - Illustrated
ISBN: 085752769X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857527691
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Описание: Join the authors of this book in starting a movement of hope and possibility for an antiracist child care and early childhood education system. This volume disrupts mental models regarding where the work of early care and education began and how the stigma of that beginning relegates present-day child care workers to a low-status field of practice.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Body, The
ISBN: 0804172722 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804172721
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Описание: Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body--with a new afterword for the Vintage paperback.

Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body--how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Brysonesque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular.

As Bill Bryson writes, "We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted." The Body will cure that indifference with generous doses of wondrous, compulsively readable facts and information. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for every body.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
THE WASHINGTON POST - FINANCIAL TIMES - THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS - BOOKPAGE - BOSTON.COM

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Really short history of words
ISBN: 024166621X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241666210
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Описание: The brand-new children's book from Bill Bryson - all about the amazing English language.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Down Under
ISBN: 1784161837 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161835
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Описание: It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite deadly.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: One Summer
ISBN: 0552772569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552772563
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Описание: In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
ISBN: 1784161810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161811
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Описание: Bill Bryson`s first travel book opened with the immortal line, `I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.` In this deeply funny and personal memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s Middle America.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Made In America (R/I)
ISBN: 1784161861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161866
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Описание: Tells the story of how American arose out of the English language, and along the way, de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn`t won, why Americans say `lootenant` and `Toosday`, and more.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: At home
ISBN: 1489377107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781489377104
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Описание: This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the sounds of Spanish, designed specifically for English-speaking students of the language. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, it explains from scratch the fundamentals of phonetics and phonology, and describes in detail the phonetic and phonological characteristics of Spanish as it is spoken in both Spain and Latin America.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Neither here nor there
ISBN: 1489363556 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781489363558
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Описание: This book is about the how of project management and about how you as a project manager can use a proactive attitude to stay in control, even during difficult situations. It shows you how to become an influencer of the path to the end result, of your environment, of your team and of your effectiveness.Today`s project managers have to meet high expectations. Challenging goals, a strong focus on cost management and lead times, serving the interests of different stakeholders and many dependencies between subprojects make project management an increasingly complex affair - especially in an environment where change and uncertainty have become the new norm. In addition, the creative abilities of knowledge workers have to be optimally utilised, which requires less hierarchical organisational structures and more multidisciplinary collaboration. Having the right project management skills is therefore essential at virtually every level of an organisation.As a result of these challenges, there is a growing demand for comprehensive methods and the popularity of Agile is on the rise. On the other hand, the increased complexity also results in a need for simplicity. That is what this book is about: going back to the basics, being able to combine useful elements from different methods and focusing on the most important aspect of all: the person behind the project manager!This book contains a wealth of practical descriptions with useful examples and anecdotes. Readers are constantly stimulated to internalise the essence and put it into practice in a manner that suits their own style and personality. That is the only way to keep at it, be successful and make others believe in you!The book consists of three parts. Part 1 (chapters 1 to 4) describes how to set up and manage a project. The focus is on the basic principles, the essence of taking control, creating structure and using Agile behavior. Part 2 (chapters 5 and 6) explains how to draw up a plan and schedule in small steps, which results in improved completeness, coordination and support. Finally, part 3 (chapters 7 to 10) covers how to manage the project execution: how to realize the path to the final goal with a strict PDCA rhythm, how to evaluate the quality of interim results and how to keep your team and environment motivated.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Short History of Nearly Everything
ISBN: 0552151742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552151740
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Описание: Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can`t contain his curiosity about the world around him. It`s not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: A Short History Of Nearly Everything (R/I)
ISBN: 1784161853 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161859
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Описание: The author 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. This title is about 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.