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A Short History of Nearly Everything de Bill Bryson
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Een kleine geschiedenis van bijna alles

de Bill Bryson

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Entertaining? definately. Well written? maybe. Science? hardly. ( )
  Lady_Lazarus | Nov 28, 2009 |
Bill Bryson is, IMO, a very gifted writer. I generally am not interested in world history, but with Bryson's wit and style I swiftly read half of this book in a weekend.I recommend this book to any one who enjoys Bryon's other books. ( )
  MikeOnTheTrail | Oct 27, 2009 |
Att skriva populärvetenskap är inte lätt: ofta blir det vetenskap, men inte populärt, eller så blir det populärt, men inte vetenskap. Ett av de senaste årens mest hyllade försök i genren är En kortfattad historik över nästan allting. Tyvärr hamnar den – eller i alla fall de delar av den där jag har kunskaper nog för en yrkesmässig bedömning– väldigt ofta i den andra fällan: nästan varenda gång som det handlar om fysik går det att upptäcka små men väsentliga misstag, som var och en med en halv examen i fysik borde kunnat rätta: okunskap om vad negativa potenser av tio innebär, småskojiga felstavningar som »Large Hydron Collider« (inte helt fel: LHC skall ju faktiskt smälla ihop en viss typ av vätekärnor) och sammanblandning av Paulis uteslutningsprincip med kvantsammanflätning. Sånt gör ju inte direkt att man känner stort förtroende när det kommer till andra områden, som till exempel geologi, paleontologi eller evolutionsbiologi, vetenskapsdiscipliner som också får mycket utrymme.

Annars är den populära biten välhanterad, med kanske bara ett något för stort intresse för de kufiska personer och udda anekdoter som vetenskapens annaler är fyllda med, och det är inte utan att man instämmer när Bryson karaktäriserar strängteori och annat liknande som »det slags tankar som skulle få dig att flytta på dig om de framfördes av en främling på en parkbänk«. Tyvärr lider den som så många andra försök i genren något av eviga liknelser i stil med »lika många som antalet pingisbollar som ryms i Albert Hall«; egentligen helt poänglösa då veterligen ingen verkligen fyllt Albert Hall med pingisbollar och nästa jämförelse blir »antalet tennisbollar i Globen«. Alla jämförelser av sådan art blir till slut poänglösa då hjärnan för länge sedan gått över till troll-räkning: »ett, två, många«. Bryson tycks också lite förtjust i att citera utan att man egentligen ser vad det skall vara bra för: möjligen är han medveten om att han kan ha gjort misstag och försöker undvika fler.

I slutändan bör man dock bedöma populärvetenskap utifrån dess syfte: att bibringa en någorlunda kunnig allmänhet resultat från vetenskapens område. Även om Brysons försök är underhållande, så är innehållet ofta så skakigt att det måste ses som åtminstone ett halvt misslyckande. ( )
  andejons | Sep 30, 2009 |
As a former lit major, I usually have to be coaxed into reading a science book. But this one caught my attention right away. I probably learned more about various branches of scientific thought, particularly physics, than I had in the last ten years, by reading this book. Which may say a lot about how I should broaden my reading tastes, but I prefer to think of it as a recommendation for this work. Just read it. You won't be bored. You'll be fascinated. And you'll end up with more questions about the way the universe is constructed than you started out with. Books that make you think for yourself always get my vote. ( )
2 vote annie1378 | Sep 13, 2009 |
Video review: http://bookvim.com/2009/09/a-short-hi...

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What fantastic journey.

Bill Bryson decided to devote part of his life (3 years, it turned out) to understand the greatest discoveries of Science. This book is the result.

You would expect a ex-news journalist writing on Science would produce a good number of mistakes and broad generalizations. This is not the case:

- His research is solid as a rock (100 pages of notes and 20 pages of bibliography).
- He won the prestigious Aventis prize for best general science book.

Yet he admits humbly to have written a book with many mistakes, and many more did not appear thanks to the patience of those who explained him the lessons.

What does it cover?

From the Big-Bang onwards, basically.

The age of the Universe, formation of galaxies and our planet, the origins of Geology, Palaeontology (study of fossils), Chemistry, Physics, Quantum Mechanics... you name it. What is most remarkable is his delivery: he makes the story-telling very, very engaging. The depiction of the great minds of Science (Newton, Einstein, Darwin...) is delightful, and the facts you will learn are most intriguing:

Did you know "stone breaking" (Geology) was fashionable in the 1800s?

Or that 1% of that static snow in your TV are remainings of the Big Bang?

Or that radioactivity was considered something healthy and marketed as such in the beginning? (radioactive toothpaste, anyone?)

It is a dense book for sure. I recommend at least underlining as you read, otherwise you risk going through 500+ pages and being not one iota more knowledgable 3 months later.

Chances are many of the basic questions about the Universe you always lacked arguments for will be uncovered in this volume.

If you have any curiosity on where Human Beings fit in the grand scheme of creation, pick up a copy.

You will understand what a miracle it is that you are reading this book review. ( )
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Amazon.com (ISBN 076790818X, Paperback)

From primordial nothingness to this very moment, A Short History of Nearly Everything reports what happened and how humans figured it out. To accomplish this daunting literary task, Bill Bryson uses hundreds of sources, from popular science books to interviews with luminaries in various fields. His aim is to help people like him, who rejected stale school textbooks and dry explanations, to appreciate how we have used science to understand the smallest particles and the unimaginably vast expanses of space. With his distinctive prose style and wit, Bryson succeeds admirably. Though A Short History clocks in at a daunting 500-plus pages and covers the same material as every science book before it, it reads something like a particularly detailed novel (albeit without a plot). Each longish chapter is devoted to a topic like the age of our planet or how cells work, and these chapters are grouped into larger sections such as "The Size of the Earth" and "Life Itself." Bryson chats with experts like Richard Fortey (author of Life and Trilobite) and these interviews are charming. But it's when Bryson dives into some of science's best and most embarrassing fights--Cope vs. Marsh, Conway Morris vs. Gould--that he finds literary gold. --Therese Littleton

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