A really short history of nearly everything
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Published:
[United States] : Delacorte Press, [2009].
Format:
Book
Edition:
1st U.S. ed., newly illustrated, abridged, and adapted ed.
Physical Desc:
169 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
Lexile measure:
1190L
Rating:
1190L
Status:
East Hampton Juvenile Nonfiction
J 509 BRY
Description
Short, illustrated segments explore the history of science. Examines the "how" and the "who" of scientific discovery. Explores the mysteries of time and space, and how, against all odds, life came to be on the wondrous planet we call home.
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9780385738101, 0385738102
Lexile measure:
1190
Notes
General Note
Includes index.
Creation/Production Credits
Examines the "how" and the "who" of scientific discovery. Explores the mysteries of time and space, and how, against all odds, life came to be on the wondrous planet we call home.
Description
Short, illustrated segments explore the history of science. Examines the "how" and the "who" of scientific discovery. Explores the mysteries of time and space, and how, against all odds, life came to be on the wondrous planet we call home.
Target Audience
1190L,Lexile
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APA Citation (style guide)
Bryson, B. (2009). A really short history of nearly everything. 1st U.S. ed., newly illustrated, abridged, and adapted ed. Delacorte Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Bryson, Bill. 2009. A Really Short History of Nearly Everything. Delacorte Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Bryson, Bill, A Really Short History of Nearly Everything. Delacorte Press, 2009.
MLA Citation (style guide)Bryson, Bill. A Really Short History of Nearly Everything. 1st U.S. ed., newly illustrated, abridged, and adapted ed. Delacorte Press, 2009.
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| 505 | 0 | |a LOST IN THE COSMOS. Finding out about our planet -- Recipe for an explosion -- The Big Bang and what came next -- How DID you get here?? -- Cosmic radiation and you -- How far to the edge of the universe? -- Our vast solar system -- Looking for Pluto, the new dwarf planet -- Voyager expeditions -- Who's out there? Advanced life elsewhere in the cosmos? -- Reverend Bob Evans: the supernova searcher -- THE SIZE OF THE EARTH. Newton and gravity -- Measuring the earth and finding its circumference -- Earth's bulge: our planet is not a sphere -- Tracking Venus -- Weighing earth: gravity and Shiehallion -- Cavendish's calculations -- Finding earth's age: the new science of geology -- The stone-breakers: the Geological Society -- Lyell and tectonic plates -- Finding fossils: mapping Britain's rock layers -- Dating rocks: geological eras -- Tooth & clay: digging up strange bones -- Dinosaur hunters: "terrible lizards" -- Bones and earth's age -- Dalton weighs atoms -- Chemistry: adding to the elements -- The periodic table: Mendeleyev instills some order -- Marie Curie and deadly radiation -- A NEW AGE DAWNS. Einstein's theory of relativity -- Spacetime: time has a shape -- The Hubble space telescope -- Lead and CFCs -- Measuring meteorites -- DANGEROUS PLANET. Trilobites: Pangaea and the fossil record -- Crust crunching: the discovery of tectonic plates -- Where does all the sediment go? -- The fire below: the earth beneath our feet -- Mount S. Helens erupts -- Yellowstone Park: a volcano in waiting -- Measuring earthquakes -- 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 -- The bacteria that feed on us -- Making you ill: infectious organisms -- You and your cells -- Adapt or die -- A runaway success: trilobites and other fossils -- Time to get started: earth's long pre-human history -- Out of the sea: when creatures took to the land -- Where did we come from? From reptiles to mammals -- Comings and goings: the great extinctions -- Labeling life: the classification of plants and animals -- Earth's unknown creatures -- Darwin on the Origin of species -- The quiet monk: Mendel and the study of genes -- One big happy family: inheritance and chromosomes -- Crick, Watson, and DNA -- THE ROAD TO US. Hot and cold: ice sheets and climate -- Living in an ice age -- 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. | |
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