A short history of nearly everything / (Record no. 353862)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | ASIN0552997048 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20180116192420.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 131231s2004 xxu eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0552997048 (paperback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780552997041 (paperback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | a |
| 050 04 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | Q162 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 500 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bryson, Bill. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 7193 |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A short history of nearly everything / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Bill Bryson. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 0th ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | [S.l.] : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Black Swan, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2004. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 672 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 20 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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 civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through time and space, he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly eccentric, competitive, obsessive and foolish scientists, like the painfully shy Henry Cavendish who worked out many conundrums like how much the Earth weighed, but never bothered to tell anybody about many of his findings. In the company of such extraordinary people, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science |
| 9 (RLIN) | 7194 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Amazon.com |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Total Renewals | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| School of Art Design and Architecture (SADA) | School of Art Design and Architecture (SADA) | 12/31/2013 | 3 | 1 | 500 BRY 2003 | SADA0002174 | 10/30/2025 | 09/12/2025 | 1585.11 | 12/31/2013 | Book |