Evolution of a human habitat. October 16, 2010. I tremble sometimes imagining a Bill Bryson book coming to life and walking among us. So rabidly know-it-all! Facts dripping from every fang!

Bryson’s book starts with a description of the Big Bang and the origins of the universe, before going on to describe how scientists discovered the size, mass and age of the universe. It then tackles ...

In his latest book, author Bill Bryson turns his attention inward to explain -- in his lucid, amusing style -- what we’re made of.(Bath & Norton East Somerset Council, UK) Toward the end of Bill ...

The bestselling travel writer Bill Bryson has beaten veteran science writers to win a £10,000 award for the best popular science book. Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything was selected ...

No, because, as Bryson makes clear, we don’t own our bodies. Evolution owns our bodies. We occupy them — although the more you read, the less clear it is how to define these roving, rickety ...

Bill Bryson’s books offer environmental ethics with a light touch A Walk in the Woods, the venerable travel writer's best-selling 1998 account of hiking a portion of the Appalachian Trail ...

As a follow-on to my recent review on Bill Bryson’s latest book – At Home: A Short History of Private Life – there’s another Bryson book that I particularly enjoy called A Short History of Nearly ...

A review of Bill Bryson's "At Home: A Short History of Private Life," which follows the author as he takes a stroll around his own house and examines the objects and spaces that have defined ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By A.J. Jacobs THE BODY A Guide for Occupants By Bill Bryson During the few moments it will take ...