万物简史 A Short History of Nearly Everything
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作者： Bill Bryson 著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 2004-5-1字数：版次： 1页数： 685印刷时间： 2004/05/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780552151740包装： 平装内容简介
Bill Bryson is one of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, he takes his ultimate journey–into the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer. It’s a dazzling quest, the intellectual odyssey of a lifetime, as this insatiably curious writer attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. Or, as the author puts it, “…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.” This is, in short, a tall order.
To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world’s most profound scientific minds, living and dead. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemisty, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see if there isn’t some way to render them comprehensible to people, like himself, made bored (or scared) stiff of science by school. His interest is not simply to discover what we know but to find out how we know it. How do we know what is in the center of the earth, thousands of miles beneath the surface? How can we know the extent and the composition of the universe, or what a black hole is? How can we know where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out?
On his travels through space and time, Bill Bryson encounters a splendid gallery of the most fascinating, eccentric, competitive, and foolish personalities ever to ask a hard question. In their company, he undertakes a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only this superb writer can render it. Science has never been more involving, and the world we inhabit has never been fuller of wonder and delight. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
作者简介：
Bill Bryson’s bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, In A Sunburned Country, Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, Bill Bryson's African Diary, and A Short History of Nearly Everything. He lives in Norfolk, England, with his wife and children.
目录
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ⅰ Lost in the Cosmos
1 How to Build a Universe
2 Welcome to the Solar System
3 The Reverend Evans's Universe
Ⅱ The Size of the Earth
4 The Measure of Thines
5 The Stone-Breakers
6 Science Red in Tooth and Claw
7 Elemental Matters
Ⅲ A New Age Dawns
8 Einstein's Universe
9 The Mighty Atom
10 Getting the Lead Out
11 Muster Mark's Quarks
12 The Earth Moves
Ⅳ: Dangerous Planet
13 Bang!
14 The Fire Below
15 Dangerous Beauty
Ⅴ: Life Itself
16 Lonely Planet
17 Into the Troposphere
18 The Bounding Main
19 The Rise of Life
20 Small World
21 Life Goes On
22 Goodbye to All That
23 The Richness of Being
24 Cells
25 Darwin's Singular Notion
26 The Stuff of Life
Ⅵ: The Road to Us
27 Ice Time
28 The Mysterious Biped
29 The Resdess Ape
30 Goodbye
Notes
Bibliography
Index
