Автор: Bryson Bill Название: The Body ISBN: 0552779911 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552779913 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER _______
'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian 'Jaw-dropping.' - The Times 'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson...an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book.' - The Sunday Times
'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts into an entertaining and nutritious book.'- The Daily Telegraph _______ 'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it.The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.'
Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.
A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this new book is an instant classic.
It will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again.
'What I learned is that we are infinitely more complex and wondrous, and often more mysterious, than I had ever suspected. There really is no story more amazing than the story of us.' Bill Bryson
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: A Short History of Nearly Everything ISBN: 0767908171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767908177 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 20850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: One of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body 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 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.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: A Short History of Nearly Everything ISBN: 076790818X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767908184 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 12260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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: Really short history of words ISBN: 024166621X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241666210 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: The brand-new children's book from Bill Bryson - all about the amazing English language.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid ISBN: 1784161810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161811 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 10650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть 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: One Summer ISBN: 0552772569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552772563 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 10270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть 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: Made In America (R/I) ISBN: 1784161861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161866 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 10710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть 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: The Body ISBN: 0857522418 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857522412 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 13190.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Popular Science
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: Bill Bryson Collector`s Edition: Notes from a Small Island, Neither Here Nor There, and I`m a Stranger Here Myself ISBN: 0739342622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739342626 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 30650.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Notes from a Small Island After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to move his wife and kids back to his homeland of the United States. But not before taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. The result is a hilarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain. Neither Here nor There Thirty years after backpacking across Europe, Bill Bryson decides to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth-carrying with him a bag of maps, old clothes...and a stinging wit honed to razor sharpness by two decades of adult experience. I'm a Stranger Here Myself Bill Bryson read "somewhere" that nearly three million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens-clearly the Americans needed Bill back. So after years raising his family in Britain with his English wife, the brood moves to the United States, and leaves Bill to chronicle the quirkiest aspects of life in America as he reveals his own rules for life.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: Neither Here Nor There ISBN: 055352576X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553525762 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 15910.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: A Walk in the Woods ISBN: 0553525069 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553525069 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 15910.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid ISBN: 076791936X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767919364 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 15330.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s
Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the best and funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24-carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house and neighborhood with an old football jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing awful evildoers (and morons)--in his head--as "The Thunderbolt Kid."
Using this persona as a springboard, Bill Bryson re-creates the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality--a life at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy. It was, he reminds us, a happy time, when automobiles and televisions and appliances (not to mention nuclear weapons) grew larger and more numerous with each passing year, and DDT, cigarettes, and the fallout from atmospheric testing were considered harmless or even good for you. He brings us into the life of his loving but eccentric family, including affectionate portraits of his father, a gifted sportswriter for the local paper and dedicated practitioner of isometric exercises, and OF his mother, whose job as the home furnishing editor for the same paper left her little time for practicing the domestic arts at home. The many readers of Bill Bryson's earlier classic, A Walk in the Woods, will greet the reappearance in these pages of the immortal Stephen Katz, seen hijacking literally boxcar loads of beer. He is joined in the Bryson gallery of immortal characters by the demonically clever Willoughby brothers, who apply their scientific skills and can-do attitude to gleefully destructive ends. Warm and laugh-out-loud funny, and full of his inimitable, pitch-perfect observations, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is as wondrous a book as Bill Bryson has ever written. It will enchant anyone who has ever been young.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: Short History of Nearly Everything ISBN: 0552151742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552151740 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть 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 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 11430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть 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.
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