
A Short History Of Nearly Everything Pdf

✏Book Title : A Short History of Nearly Everything
✏Author : Bill Bryson
✏Publisher : Anchor Canada
✏Release Date : 2012-05-15
✏Pages : 624
✏ISBN : 9780385674508
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

✏A Short History of Nearly Everything Book Summary : 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.

📒Our Secret Powers ✍ TERJE. SIMONSEN

✏Book Title : OUR SECRET POWERS
✏Author : TERJE. SIMONSEN
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2018
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : 8895604334
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

✏OUR SECRET POWERS Book Summary :

📒At Home ✍ Bill Bryson

✏Book Title : At Home
✏Author : Bill Bryson
✏Publisher : Anchor Books
✏Release Date : 2011-10
✏Pages : 577
✏ISBN : 9780767919395
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

✏At Home Book Summary : Explores the ways in which homes reflect history, from a bathroom's revelations about medicine and hygiene to a kitchen's exposure of the stories of trade and nutrition.

✏Book Title : Bill Bryson s African Diary
✏Author : Bill Bryson
✏Publisher : Broadway Books
✏Release Date : 2007-12-18
✏Pages : 64
✏ISBN : 0307418847
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

✏Bill Bryson s African Diary Book Summary : “Here is a man who suffers so his readers can laugh.” — Daily Telegraph Bill Bryson travels to Kenya in support of CARE International. All royalties and profits go to CARE International. Bryson visits Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to eradicating poverty. Kenya is a land of contrasts, with famous game reserves and a vibrant culture. It also provides plenty to worry a traveller like Bill Bryson, fixated as he is on the dangers posed by snakes, insects and large predators. It is also a country with many serious problems: refugees, AIDS, drought, and grinding poverty. The resultant diary, though short in length, contains the trademark Bryson stamp of wry observation and curious insight.

📒Made In America ✍ Bill Bryson

✏Book Title : Made In America
✏Author : Bill Bryson
✏Publisher : Random House
✏Release Date : 2010-03-02
✏Pages : 592
✏ISBN : 9781409095699
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

✏Made In America Book Summary : ‘Funny, wise, learned and compulsive’ - GQ Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America, Bryson 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’, how they were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up - as well as exposing the true origins of the words G-string, blockbuster, poker and snafu. ‘A tremendously sassy work, full of zip, pizzazz and all those other great American qualities’ Will Self, Independent on Sunday

📒The Grand Food Bargain ✍ Kevin D. Walker

✏Book Title : The Grand Food Bargain
✏Author : Kevin D. Walker
✏Publisher : Island Press
✏Release Date : 2019-03-26
✏Pages : 344
✏ISBN : 9781610919470
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

✏The Grand Food Bargain Book Summary : When it comes to food, Americans seem to have a pretty great deal. Our grocery stores are overflowing with countless varieties of convenient products. But like most bargains that are too good to be true, the modern food system relies on an illusion. It depends on endless abundance, but the planet has its limits. So too does a healthcare system that must absorb rising rates of diabetes and obesity. So too do the workers who must labor harder and faster for less pay. Through beautifully-told stories from around the world, Kevin Walker reveals the unintended consequences of our myopic focus on quantity over quality. A trip to a Costa Rica plantation shows how the Cavendish banana became the most common fruit in the world and also one of the most vulnerable to disease. Walker’s early career in agribusiness taught him how pressure to sell more and more fertilizer obscured what that growth did to waterways. His family farm illustrates how an unquestioning belief in “free markets” undercut opportunity in his hometown. By the end of the journey, we not only understand how the drive to produce ever more food became hardwired into the American psyche, but why shifting our mindset is essential. It starts, Walker argues, with remembering that what we eat affects the wider world. If each of us decides that bigger isn’t always better, we can renegotiate the grand food bargain, one individual decision at a time.

✏Book Title : Strategies for Regenerating the Library and Information Profession
✏Author : Jana Varlejs
✏Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
✏Release Date : 2009-08-17
✏Pages : 415
✏ISBN : 9783598441776
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

✏Strategies for Regenerating the Library and Information Profession Book Summary : This volume comprises papers prepared for the 8th World Conference on Continuing Professional Development (Bologna, Italy, 18-20 August 2009). Within the broad theme of creating a positive work environment for a multi-generational workforce in library and information organizations, the conference addresses managing between and across generations, mentoring and coaching, attracting people to the profession and developing a new generation of leaders, re-skilling and transferability of skills, succession planning and passing on knowledge.

✏Book Title : Bryson s Dictionary of Troublesome Words
✏Author : Bill Bryson
✏Publisher : Broadway Books
✏Release Date : 2002-09-17
✏Pages : 224
✏ISBN : 0767910478
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

✏Bryson s Dictionary of Troublesome Words Book Summary : One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage. As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word ‘set’ has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly, but if you are stuck fast you are not moving at all; [and] where ‘colonel,’ ‘freight,’ ‘once,’ and ‘ache’ are strikingly at odds with their spellings.” As a copy editor for the London Times in the early 1980s, Bill Bryson felt keenly the lack of an easy-to-consult, authoritative guide to avoiding the traps and snares in English, and so he brashly suggested to a publisher that he should write one. Surprisingly, the proposition was accepted, and for “a sum of money carefully gauged not to cause embarrassment or feelings of overworth,” he proceeded to write that book–his first, inaugurating his stellar career. Now, a decade and a half later, revised, updated, and thoroughly (but not overly) Americanized, it has become Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, more than ever an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. With some one thousand entries, from “a, an” to “zoom,” that feature real-world examples of questionable usage from an international array of publications, and with a helpful glossary and guide to pronunciation, this precise, prescriptive, and–because it is written by Bill Bryson–often witty book belongs on the desk of every person who cares enough about the language not to maul or misuse or distort it.

✏Book Title : The Best American Travel Writing 2016
✏Author : Bill Bryson
✏Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
✏Release Date : 2016-10-04
✏Pages : 336
✏ISBN : 9780544812161
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

✏The Best American Travel Writing 2016 Book Summary : Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2016, and though he admits, “I wasn’t at all sure I knew the answer,” they are questions worthy of examination. While the various contributors to this collection all travel for different reasons, one thing is for certain—they come back with stories. Whether traversing the Arctic by dogsled, attending a surreal film festival in North Korea, or strolling the streets of a fast-changing Havana, their insights into the world and the human condition are illuminating and enthralling, providing an answer: This is why I like to travel. The Best American Travel Writing 2016 includes Michael Chabon, Alice Gregory, Paul Theroux, Dave Eggers, Helen Macdonald, Sara Corbett, Stephanie Pearson,Thomas Chatterton Williams, Pico Iyer, and others BILL BRYSON, guest editor, is the best-selling author of A Walk in the Woods; A Short History of Nearly Everything; One Summer: America, 1927; The Road to Little Dribbling; and numerous other books. JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits; Spaghetti on the Wall; and the forthcoming Why Wine Matters. He has written for the Washington Post Magazine, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and many other publications, and has won awards for Best Food Column from the Association of Food Journalists four times.

📒These 6 Things ✍ Dave Stuart Jr.

✏Book Title : These 6 Things
✏Author : Dave Stuart Jr.
✏Publisher : Corwin Press
✏Release Date : 2018-06-28
✏Pages : 272
✏ISBN : 9781506391045
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

✏These 6 Things Book Summary : Dave Stuart Jr.’s work is centered on a simple belief: all students and teachers can flourish. These 6 Things is all about streamlining your practice so that you’re teaching smarter, not harder, and kids are learning, doing, and flourishing in ELA and content-area classrooms. In this essential resource, teachers will receive: Proven, classroom-tested advice delivered in an approachable, teacher-to-teacher style that builds confidence Practical strategies for streamlining instruction in order to focus on key beliefs and literacy-building activities Solutions and suggestions for the most common teacher and student “hang-ups” Numerous recommendations for deeper reading on key topics
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