Una breve historia de casi todo. Ilustr

Una breve historia de casi todo. Ilustr
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Rba Libros
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-11
Genre: Ciencia
ISBN: 9788478717989

Bill Bryson ha logrado lo que parecía imposible: hacer inteligible y entretenido el mundo de la ciencia a millones de personas de todo el mundo. Ahora, en esta nueva espléndida edición ilustrada, los acontecimientos más destacables - desde la Gran Explosión hasta la aparición de la civilización- cobran vida con impresionantes fotografías, dibujos, retratos y viñetas.

Una breve historia de casi todo

Una breve historia de casi todo
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Rba Libros
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9788478711758

Bill Bryson se describe como un viajero renuente, pero ni siquiera cuando está en su casa, en la seguridad de su estudio, puede contener esa curiosidad que siente por el mundo que le rodea. En Una breve historia de casi todo, intenta entender qué ocurrió entre la Gran Explosión y el surgimiento de la civilización, cómo pasamos de la nada a lo que ahora somos. Una interesante manera de especular sobre el origen de la especie humana y lo que le rodea.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Short History of Nearly Everything
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2012-05-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0385674503

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.

El cuerpo humano (edición ilustrada)

El cuerpo humano (edición ilustrada)
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: RBA Libros y Publicaciones
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2022-10-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 841132186X

Pasamos toda nuestra vida en un solo cuerpo y, sin embargo, la mayoría de nosotros no tenemos prácticamente ni idea de cómo funciona y lo que sucede en su interior.En este Bestseller internacional, Bill Bryson sale de viaje para averiguar exactamente cómo funciona el cuerpo humano y pronto descubre que es infinitamente más complejo, asombroso y a menudo, más misterioso de lo que jamás habría esperado.Viajando desde el cerebro hasta las regiones inferiores y desde el comienzo de la vida hasta su fin, revela que somos una historia increíble de éxito. Y la historia de cómo hemos intentado dominar nuestra biología y prevenir la enfermedad está llena de héroes olvidados, anécdotas sorprendentes y hechos extraordinarios.Esta impresionante edición ilustrada retrata vívidamente lo que narra con cientos de ilustraciones históricas y modernas fotografías. Infinitamente fascinante, tan compulsivamente fácil de leer como completo, este manual del usuario, de lectura obligada, es Bryson en todo su esplendor.

El cuerpo humano

El cuerpo humano
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: RBA Libros
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2020-02-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 849187626X

Del autor de Una breve historia de casi todo (200.000 ejemplares vendidos) Nos pasamos toda una vida con un solo cuerpo y casi no sabemos cómo funciona. Desde los genes hasta nuestra capacidad de hablar, pasando por nuestras constantes adaptaciones al medio y los riesgos que corremos, este libro nos descubre que nuestro microcosmos es un verdadero milagro, lleno de prodigios y de secretos asombrosos. Explicar el cuerpo humano en toda su integridad, y hacerlo para todos los públicos, solo está al alcance de un autor como Bill Bryson. Con su habitual talento narrativo, su capacidad para sintetizar amplios conocimientos y su cultura para revelar datos sorprendentes, Bryson demuestra que es el mejor y más divertido guía para emprender un apasionante viaje hacia nuestro interior. "El cuerpo humano es un mapa de las maravillas, un recorrido por un miembro minúsculo". THE GUARDIAN

A Short History of Nearly Everything, Illustrated Edition

A Short History of Nearly Everything, Illustrated Edition
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-10-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0385663552

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.

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 0241451957

The extraordinary Bill Bryson takes us from the Big Bang to the dawn of science in this book about basically everything. Ever wondered how we got from nothing to something? Or thought about how we can weigh the earth? Or wanted to reach the edge of the universe? Uncover the mysteries of time, space and life on earth in this extraordinary book - a journey from the centre of the planet to the dawn of the dinosaurs, and everything in between. And discover our own incredible journey, from single cell to civilisation, including the brilliant (and sometimes very bizarre) scientists who helped us find out the how and why. Adapted from A Short History of Nearly Everything, the ground-breaking bestseller, this book is stunningly illustrated throughout, and accessible for all ages ************************************************************************ Reviews for A Short History of Nearly Everything: 'It's the sort of book I would have devoured as a teenager. It might well turn unsuspecting young readers into scientists.' Evening Standard 'I doubt that a better book for the layman about the findings of modern science has been written' Sunday Telegraph 'A thoroughly enjoyable, as well as educational, experience. Nobody who reads it will ever look at the world around them in the same way again' Daily Express 'The very book I have been looking for most of my life' Daily Mail

A Short History of Nearly Everything - 10th Anniversary Edition

A Short History of Nearly Everything - 10th Anniversary Edition
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Black Swan
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2013
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780552779135

Now revised and updated to take in the major scientific developments of the past decade, A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's classic quest to find out 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. Winner of the Aventis Prize for Science Books and the Descartes Science Communcation Prize, it became a huge bestseller, and remains one of the most popular science books of all time. Bill Bryson's challenge was to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there wasn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. On his travels through time and space, he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly eccentric, competitive, obsessive and foolish scientists, and takes us on an eye-opening journey through time and space, revealing the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.

A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition

A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307885151

This new edition of the acclaimed bestseller is lavishly illustrated to convey, in pictures as in words, Bill Bryson’s exciting, informative journey into the world of science. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, the bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, confronts his greatest challenge yet: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as his 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. The result 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. Now, in this handsome new edition, Bill Bryson’s words are supplemented by full-color artwork that explains in visual terms the concepts and wonder of science, at the same time giving face to the major players in the world of scientific study. Eloquently and entertainingly described, as well as richly illustrated, science has never been more involving or entertaining.