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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Gesprochen von: Richard Matthews
- Spieldauer: 18 Std. und 13 Min.
- Kategorien: Geschichte, Welt

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With his slightly bemused English accent, narrator Richard Matthews sounds completely at home in the material, chatting knowingly and with perfect dry comic timing. For managing to cover the universe and keep it lively, this experience definitely merits as an all-time favorite.
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One of the world’s most beloved and best-selling 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.
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"Destined to become a modern classic of science writing." ( The New York Times Book Review)
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- Siegfried Glaser
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Food for thought / Stoff zum Nachdenken
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Während dieses wundervolle Buch durch eine... nun, durch eine kurze Geschichte von fast allem führt, gewährt es einen verschmitzten Blick hinter die Kulissen dessen, was landläufig als Wissenschaft bezeichnet wird. Es ist informativ, unterhaltsam und eindeutig eines der besten Bücher die ich je genießen durfte.
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- Fotofreak
- 02.12.2012
Bildung und viel Spaß
Manchmal hört man Kritik an diesem Buch, weil es nicht wissenschaftlich genug sei. HALLO!?! Es ist ein Bill Bryson und keine Uni-Lektüre. Bryson gibt in seiner witzigen und unterhaltsamen Art einen Überblick zum menschlichen Wissensstand. Natürlich liegt der Schwerpunkt der Studien und Veröffentlichungen auf dem anglo-amerikanischen Raum. Das Buch sollte man aber nicht mit dem Ziel lesen eine rein sachliche Wissensvermittlung zu erhalten. Man erhält das, was einem versprochen wird: erstklassige Unterhaltung, und ganz nebenbei interessante Informationen zum Stand der Wissenschaft, die Lust auf mehr machen.
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- BogdanGarezin
- 11.03.2019
Very good, a little outdated
The book is wonderful and very informative, however future readers should remember that some of the information presented is somewhat outdated. Would be amazing if a more updated version were available.
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- Claudia Weller
- 21.01.2008
Great description, information and entertainment
Wholly recommendable audio book with information about scientific issues in a very entertaining way. I have enjoyed the book very much as well as the style in which it was written and told by the speaker. Even a subject such as chemistry which I always dreaded in school had taken my interest and awoken the desire to learn more.
Sehr empfehlenswertes Hörbuch mit Informationen über wissenschaftliche Themen die auf sehr unterhaltsame Weise dargestellt werden. Habe das Buch sehr genossen, auch den Stil und den Sprecher. Sogar ein Thema wie Chemie, die ich in der Schule immer gehaßt hatte, wurde duch Bill Bryson interessant.
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- Anonymer Hörer
- 30.12.2020
Great and becomes better!
Great book overall which gives a lot of interesting insights. Becomes even better after the first few chapters!
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- Maria
- 24.08.2020
Fantastic storytelling of very interesting topics
Highly interesting topics are explained in an easy and very entertaining manner. Full with curious and sometimes even funny details and facts about a wide variety of scientific subjects
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- Christian
- 15.08.2020
Good book but expected it to be different
Very interesting book indeed. Covery a lot of things and history through time. I was a bit more excited initially in the preface/intro of the book as it was hinted to go deeper into certain questions about facts we know. Most of the boom though while interesting was more about history, the people who discovered something but didn‘t answer the questions that arise. At least not nearly enough as I hoped.
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- Alex
- 10.06.2020
Wonderfully read and captivating
Loved it. Well read, never dull and well paced. The narrator has a good voice and the book is very interesting. All chapters of it. Recommended.
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- Ciaran Ryan
- 14.05.2020
Simply a brilliant book.
Easily one of my favourite books. They way Bryson talks to about science in a non-science way is perfectly fitting. The stories of each scientist we meet is as enjoyable and funny as the things they discovered are important and interesting. It’s a book I’ve bought multiple times as I keep giving it out to people insisting that they read it and always losing track of where it is.
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