The Body, Bryson Bill

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: The Body Hb
ISBN: 085752240X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857522405
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 3300.00 р.
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Описание: The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.` In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Really short history of words
ISBN: 024166621X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241666210
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The brand-new children's book from Bill Bryson - all about the amazing English language.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Short History of Nearly Everything
ISBN: 0552151742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552151740
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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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. It`s not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Down Under
ISBN: 1784161837 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161835
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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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.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: One Summer
ISBN: 0552772569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552772563
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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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: The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
ISBN: 1784161810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161811
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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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: Bryson`s Dictionary
ISBN: 0385610440 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385610445
Издательство: Transworld Publishers
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Цена: 1979.00 р.
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Описание: A selection of spellings and usages, covering capitalization, plurals, abbreviations and foreign names and phrases. This book also helps the readers with the difference between British and American usages, and includes information such as the names of all the Oxford colleges, or the new name for the Department of Trade and Industry.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Bill Bryson`s African Diary
ISBN: 0767915062 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767915069
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1195.00 р.
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Описание: 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."

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
ISBN: 0375434305 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375434303
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2570.00 р.
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Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Neither Here Nor There
ISBN: 055352576X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553525762
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2386.00 р.
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Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: A Walk in the Woods
ISBN: 0553525069 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553525069
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2386.00 р.
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Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: A Short History of Nearly Everything
ISBN: 0767908171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767908177
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 3127.00 р.
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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: 1839.00 р.
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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: Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
ISBN: 076791936X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767919364
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2299.00 р.
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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.