A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
| Book | A Really Short History of Nearly Everything |
| Abridged by | Felicia Law |
| Editor | Felicia Law |
| Publisher | Random House Children's Books |
| Illustrator | Yuliya Somina, Martin Sanders |
| Consultant | Sarah Chant, Martin Weaver |
| Foreword by | Bill Bryson |
| Imprint | Corgi Books |
| Designed by | Simon Webb, Margaret Hope |
| Cover photo | Getty Images |
| First Published by | Doubleday |
| Copyright Holder | Bill Bryson, Getty Images, Science Photo Library |
| Format | Soft cover |
| Language | English |
| Location | Great Britain |
| Copyright | 2003 |
| Revised Edition | 2008 |
| Copyright | 2008 |
| This Edition Published | 2010 |
| Pages / Font | 169 pages / ARTotis Sans Serif |
| Barcode | 9 780552 562966 |
| ISBN | 978-0-552-56296-6 |
| Price | £9.99 |
| Chapters | CONTENTS Foreword LOST IN THE COSMOS How do they know that? - finding out about our planet Cooking up a universe - recipe for an explosion The Big Bang - what came next Hi! Glad you could make it! - how did you get here? Listening to the Big Bang - cosmic radiation and you To the edge of the universe - how far is it? Journey into space - our vast solar system Looking for Pluto - the new dwarf planet Journey's end - the Voyager expeditions Who's out there? - advanced life elsewhere in the cosmos? The supernova searcher - the amazing Reverend Bob Evans THE SIZE OF THE EARTH Back on Earth - Newton and gravity Measuring the Earth - finding the circumference Earth's bulge - our planet is not a sphere How far around? - two ill-fated measuring expeditions Tracking Venus - following the Venus transit Weighing the Earth - gravity and Shiehallion Featherweight measures - Cavendish's calculations Finding Earth's age - the new science of geology The stone-breakers - the Geological Society Slow and steady does it - Lyell and tectonic plates Finding fossils - mapping Britain's rock layers Dating the rocks - the great eras of geological time Tooth and claw - digging up strange bones Dinosaur hunters - 'terrible lizards' It's bone time - bones and Earth's age The mighty atom - Dalton weighs atoms A matter of chemistry - adding the elements The Periodic Table - Mendeleyev instils some order Glowing elements - Marie Curie and deadly radiation A NEW AGE DAWNS Einstein - the genius - the Special Theory of Relativity Spacetime - time has a shape The big picture - the Hubble Space Telescope 'Bad' science - lead and CFCs A meteoric age - measuring meteorites DANGEROUS PLANET Travelling trilobites - Pangaea and the fossil record Crust crunching - the discovery of tectonic activity All adrift - where does all the sediment go? The fire below - the Earth beneath our feet Boom! the eruption of Mount St Helens Yellowstone Park - a volcano in waiting Big quakes - measuring earthquakes Impact from space - meteors and the KT extinction Asteroid hit - rocky objects heading for us? LIFE ITSELF Our tiny patch - a comfortable place to be Earth's blanket - the atmosphere that protects us Wild and windy - Earth's weather Hot-water bottle - the effect of the oceans Awash with water - a watery planet Down in the deep - living on the ocean floor Protein soup - oceans - where life started Battling bacteria - the coming of microbes Your mini world - the bacteria that feed on us Making you ill - infectious organisms Citizen cells - you and your cells How long can you stay? - adapt or die A runaway success - trilobites and other fossils Time to get started - Earth's long pre-human history Out of the sea - where creatures took to the land Where did we come from? - from reptiles to mammals Comings and goings - the great extinctions Labelling life - the classification of plants and animals Can't count? - Earth's unknown creatures Journey to the future - Darwin and On the Origin of Species The quiet monk - Mendel and the study of genes One big happy family - inheritance and chromosomes Chain of life - Crick and Watson and DNA THE ROAD TO US Hot and cold - ice sheets and climate Chilly times - living in an ice age Skull and bones - discovering early human remains Lucy - the most famous australopithecine From there to here - the rise of Homo sapiens Tool-makers - inventors of the first technology Humans take over - extermination and extinction What now? - a polluted planet Goodbye - our planet and us Index Picture credits |
| Notes | A Corgi book A Short History of Nearly Everything first published in Great Britain by Doubleday, a division of Transworld Publishers, 2003 This abridged, adapted and illustrated edition first published in Great Britain by Doubleday, an imprint of Random House Children's Books A Random House Group Company Doubleday abridged, adapted and illustrated edition published 2008 Corgi edition published 2010 Copyright © Bill Bryson, 2003, 2008 Abridged and edited by Felicia Law (Diverta Ltd) Illustrations by Yuliya Somina Additional illustrations by Martin Sanders Initial design by Simon Webb; additional design by Margaret Hope Subject consultants: Sarah Chant; Martin Weaver Cover photography © www.gettyimages.com Corgi Books are published by Random House Children's Books Printed and bound in China Illustrations by Yuliya Somina Cover photography © Getty Images Space photography © NASA/Science Photo Library |
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