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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction
Ever wondered how we got from nothing to something? Or thought about how we can weigh the earth? Or wanted to reach the edge of the universe? Uncover the mysteries of time, space and life on earth in this extraordinary book - a journey from the centre of the planet to the dawn of the dinosaurs, and ever ...Show more
A Short History Of Nearly Everything - 10th Anniversary Edition by Bill Bryson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Now revised and updated to take in the major scientific developments of the past decade, "A Short History of Nearly Everything" is Bill Bryson's classic quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, be ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
$22.99 AUD
$24.99 (8% off)
Category: History | Series: Bryson | Reading Level: very good
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Science
The author of A Walk in the Woods traces the Big Bang through the rise of civilization, documenting his work with a host of the world's most advanced scientists and mathematicians to explain why things are the way they are. Reprint.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilizat ...Show more
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Bryson Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. What does history really consists of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home. This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journe ...Show more
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everythingone of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about ...Show more
At Home: A Short History of Private Life Illustrated Edition by Bill Bryson
$59.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home. This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journey around the r ...Show more
Down Under by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Forget Crocodile Dundee, Castlemaine XXXX and the 2000 Sydney Olympics - Bill Bryson is the man to put Australia on the map. Bill Bryson has traversed the length and breadth of Australia to bring us his first major new book since the bestselling A Walk in the Woods. Bryson is a household name, synonymou ...Show more
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
$10.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest g ...Show more
Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language by Bill Bryson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Reference
'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to . . . ' Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongre ...Show more
One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
$49.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy BookA GoodReads Reader's Choice The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newark, New Jersey, Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly sat atop a flagpole for twelve days, and in Chicago, the gangst ...Show more