The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bryson Bill

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Walk In The Woods
ISBN: 1784161446 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161446
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: Ahead lay almost 2,200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, poisonous plants, disease-bearing tics, the occasional chuckling murderer and - perhaps most alarming of all - people whose favourite pastime is discussing the relative merits of the external-frame backpack.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Short History of Nearly Everything (A)
ISBN: 0552151742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552151740
Издательство: Random House
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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. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his 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. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science.

It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out?On his travels through time and space, he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly eccentric, competitive, obsessive and foolish scientists, like the painfully shy Henry Cavendish who worked out many conundrums like how much the Earth weighed, but never bothered to tell anybody about many of his findings. In the company of such extraordinary people, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: The Road to Little Dribbling
ISBN: 0552779849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552779845
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. This book an insight into all that is best and worst about Britain.

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.Ignoring such dangers - and yet curiously obsessed by them - Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Notes From A Big Country
ISBN: 1784161845 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161842
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Описание: The author has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. Whether discussing the strange appeal of breakfast pizza or the jaw-slackening direness of American TV, the author brings his brand of bemused wit to bear on that strangest of phenomena - the American way of life.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Shakespeare
ISBN: 000719790X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007197903
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: This short biography of William Shakespeare by world famous writer Bill Bryson brims with the author`s inimitable wit and intelligence.

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: Icons of England
ISBN: 1784161969 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161965
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Описание: A celebration of the English countryside that focuses on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. It also presents an eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Troublesome Words
ISBN: 0141040394 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040394
Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd
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Описание: A guide to the problems of English usage and spelling. It lets you discover whether you should care about split infinitives, or were wondering if that newsreader was right to say `an historic day`.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Neither Here, Nor There
ISBN: 1784161829 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161828
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: The author`s first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In this book, he deals with Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Mother Tongue, The
ISBN: 0380715430 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780380715435
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Brysonthe acclaimed author of The Lost Continentbrilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog cant), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the worlds largest growth industries.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Mother Tongue
ISBN: 0141040084 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040080
Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd
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Описание: Presenting a tour of English from its mongrel origins to its status as the world`s most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelling and pronunciation, this book covers curious eccentricities that make it as maddening to learn and as flexible to use.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Neither Here Nor There
ISBN: 055352576X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553525762
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1663 р.
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Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Made in America
ISBN: 0552998052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552998055
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Описание: An entertaining, anecdotal look at the origins of language and ideas in the USA. Bryson explains why two bicycle repairmen from Ohio succeeded in mastering manned flight, why the assassination of President Garfield led to the invention of air conditioning, and many other improbable but true facts.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Walk in the Woods
ISBN: 0552997021 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552997027
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Описание: From the author of "Notes from a Small Island" and "The Lost Continent" comes this humorous report on his walk along the Appalachian Trail. The Trail is the longest continuous footpath in the world, and it snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in America.