A Short History of Nearly Everything
Spectacular.: In this book, Bryson does a marvellous job of living up to his title; he gives an overview of everything from the Big Bang theory to the evolution of modern man, giving a very balanced description of what is known, what isn't known, what [... more]
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Troublesome Words
 Author: Bill Bryson Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 423 EAN: 9780141001357 Edition: 3rd ISBN: 0141001356 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2002-09-26 [... more]
$18.60
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Bizarre World
What a waste of paper!: I love reading Bill Bryson - all his travel books are infused with a wicked wit and are quite informative as well. I don't know if this is the same Bill Bryson or it's his son or someone entirely different. Whomever "wrote& [... more]
$7.50
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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words
Obsolete: Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words may have been useful twenty-five years ago, when it was first published, but it has become redundant. Most entries clarify word spellings and meanings, which a normal dictionary does just as well (with [... more]
$21.00
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Amazon.com Review: 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 [... more]
$29.50
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In A Sunburned Country (Random House Large Print ...
Amazon.com Review: Bill Bryson follows his Appalachian amble, A Walk in the Woods, with the story of his exploits in Australia, where A-bombs go off unnoticed, prime ministers disappear into the surf, and cheery citizens coexist with the world's [... more]
$25.00
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A Walk in the Woods
Not a good book: The book is humorous in places, but most of this humor is at someone's expense. The author's superior than thou criticism for anyone or anything south of the New Jersey border gets old fast. In his view all southerners are inbread idiots, [... more]
$8.99
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir ...
Great Fun: This was a wonderful book, which also deviates here and there into politics and general history. I really came to enjoy Bryson's observations about how "the good old days" were also fraught with some significant downsides, which we' [... more]
$27.95
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Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors
Title should be "... for NEWS Writers and Editors": With a different title I would have given this book five stars, and I would highly recommend it for newsrooms. But the majority of the world's writers and editors do not work in newsrooms. [... more]
$16.00
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Una Breve Historia de Casi Todo (Spanish Edition)
Muy buen libro: Es un libro que de una forma muy clara cuenta los hechos relevantes de la vida cientifica, a demas es de una lectura muy ligera Muy interesante: Si te gusta la ciencia el libro te va a atrapar desde el principio hasta el fin. En algunas [... more]
$29.99
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Made in America
Amazon.com Review: Readers from Toad Suck, Arkansas, to Idiotsville, Oregon--and everywhere in between--will love Made in America, Bill Bryson's Informal History of the English Language in the United States. It is, in a word, fascinating. After reading [... more]
$14.95
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A Walk in the Woods Rediscovering America on the ...
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