Bill Bryson

Breve storia di (quasi) tutto - Bill Bryson (Repost)  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Maroutan at June 25, 2016
Breve storia di (quasi) tutto - Bill Bryson (Repost)

Breve storia di (quasi) tutto - Bill Bryson
Italian | 2014 | 669 Pages | ISBN: B00M87M0G0 | EPUB | 964.99 KB

La nostra vita, ci ricorda Bill Bryson, è il risultato di «una straordinaria dose di fortuna biologica», l’esito di una serie lunghissima di eventi, per molti versi assolutamente misteriosi. Questo libro prova a spiegare come un tale colpo di fortuna si sia potuto verificare. O meglio, prova a spiegare quel che gli scienziati hanno scoperto del modo in cui dal nulla è nato un universo; e in questo universo si sono formati galassie, stelle e pianeti; e su uno di questi pianeti, la Terra, sono sorte forme di vita prima molto semplici e poi più complesse, fino ad arrivare qui, a noi, esseri umani moderni, eretti e senzienti…

Bill Bryson - Breve storia di (quasi) tutto (2018) [Audiobook]  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by edi1967 at Jan. 6, 2019
Bill Bryson - Breve storia di (quasi) tutto (2018) [Audiobook]

Bill Bryson - Breve storia di (quasi) tutto (2018)
Audiobook | Audible GmbH | Italian | 21 Agosto 2018 | MP3@64 kbps | 21 hrs 40 mins | 597 MB
Narrator: Andrea Oldani

La nostra vita, ci ricorda Bill Bryson, è il risultato di "una straordinaria dose di fortuna biologica", l'esito di una serie lunghissima di eventi, per molti versi assolutamente misteriosi. Questo libro prova a spiegare come un tale colpo di fortuna si sia potuto verificare. O meglio, prova a spiegare quel che gli scienziati hanno scoperto del modo in cui dal nulla è nato un universo; e in questo universo si sono formati galassie…

Bill Bryson - Made in America  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by wjwj1 at Nov. 25, 2007
Bill Bryson - Made in America

Bill Bryson - Made in America
Black Swan | ISBN:0552998052 | 1994 | PDF | 464 pages | 10 MB

Bryson offers a playfully anecdotal account of the etymology of distinctive words and phrases that help to create a distinctly American English. 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 this tour de force, it's clear that a nation's language speaks volumes about its true character: you are what you speak. Bryson traces America's history through the language of the time, then goes on to discuss words culled from everyday activities: immigration, eating, shopping, advertising, going to the movies, and others.

Bill Bryson - The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Vedart at Jan. 12, 2010
Bill Bryson - The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

Bill Bryson, «The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way»
Audiobook | ISBN-10: 0380715430 | English | MP3 (32 Kbps) | 314 Mb

Who would have thought that a book about English would be so entertaining? Bill Bryson–a zealot–is the right man for the job. It is his unflagging enthusiasm, seeping from between every sentence, that carries the book.
Bryson displays an encyclopedic knowledge of his topic, and this inevitably encourages a light tone; the more you know about a subject, the more absurd it becomes. No jokes are necessary, the facts do well enough by themselves, and Bryson supplies tens per page. Not only does this give a laugh (one word: Welsh), and always shed considerable light, it also makes the reader feel fortunate to speak English.

Bill Bryson - Picknik mit Bären  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by thingska at Nov. 20, 2011
Bill Bryson - Picknik mit Bären

Bill Bryson - Picknik mit Bären
Genre: Abenteuer, Reise | Time: 10:54:00 | Publisher: Audible | ISBN: 3442443954 | 20. September 2008
Language: Deutsch | Audiobook in MP3 / 128 kbps | 619.28 MB

Ein Reisebericht der etwas anderen Art - humorvoll, selbstironisch und mit einem scharfen Blick für die Marotten von Menschen und Bären! Bill Bryson will es seinen gehfaulen Landsleuten zeigen: Gemeinsam mit seinem Freund Katz, der aufgrund gewaltiger Leibesfülle und einer festverwurzelten Leidenschaft für Schokoriegel nicht gerade die besten Voraussetzungen dafür mitbringt, will er den längsten Fußweg der Welt, den "Appalachian Trail", bezwingen. Eine abenteuerliche Reise quer durch zwölf Bundesstaaten der USA beginnt…

Bill Bryson - Frühstück mit Kängurus  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by thingska at Nov. 21, 2011
Bill Bryson - Frühstück mit Kängurus

Bill Bryson - Frühstück mit Kängurus
Genre: Abenteuer, Reise | Time: 12:19:00 | Publisher: Audible | ISBN: 3442453798 | 1. November 2008
Language: Deutsch | Audiobook in MP3 / 128 kbps | 698.58 MB

Was ist das für ein Land, in dem sich fliegende Füchse tummeln und Schweinefußnasenbeutler einst ihr Unwesen trieben? In seinem ebenso amüsanten wie informativen Streifzug durch ein unbekanntes Australien erzählt Bill Bryson von den historischen Hintergründen der Entdeckung dieses faszinierenden Kontinents - und hält den Leser mit seinem scharfen Blick für alles Skurrile und Ungewöhnliche in Atem.

Bill Bryson - Down Under  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Vedart at Dec. 15, 2009
Bill Bryson - Down Under

Bill Bryson, «Down Under»
Audiobook | ISBN-10: 0552148369 | English | MP3 (128 kb/s) | 137 Mb

After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way that anywhere else. Yet when Bill Bryson travelled to Australia he promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, the cities safe and clean, the food is excellent, the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. He tries to find out why Aussies are so excited, digging up a past that reveals convicts, explorers, gold diggers and outlaws.

Piccola grande isola - Bill Bryson  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Maroutan at May 12, 2017
Piccola grande isola - Bill Bryson

Piccola grande isola - Bill Bryson
Italian | 2016 | 476 Pages | ISBN: 8823514592 | EPUB | 2.06 MB

A vent'anni da "Notizie da un'isoletta", Bill Bryson parte per un nuovo viaggio attraverso la Gran Bretagna. Questa volta si inventa un percorso che è anche una sfida: la Bryson Line, la linea retta più lunga che si possa tracciare tra due località britanniche, partendo dal suo estremo meridionale, Bognor Regis, una sonnacchiosa cittadina marittima sulla Manica, per risalire fin sulla punta della Scozia, a Cape Wrath, dove un faro solitario osserva le acque tempestose in cui si incontrano l'Atlantico e il Mare del Nord…

Une histoire du corps humain à l'usage de ses occupants - Bill Bryson  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Maroutan at Sept. 20, 2020
Une histoire du corps humain à l'usage de ses occupants - Bill Bryson

Une histoire du corps humain à l'usage de ses occupants - Bill Bryson
Français | 2020 | 560 Pages | ISBN: 2228926787 | EPUB | 675 KB

Confinés à vie dans notre corps, nous sommes pourtant loin de bien le connaître. L'illustre Bill Bryson a donc endossé sa double panoplie d'écrivain-voyageur et de vulgarisateur scientifique afin de nous guider avec bonheur dans l'exploration de notre organisme jusqu'à l'infiniment petit. Il en révèle toute la complexité le plus simplement du monde, interroge les meilleurs chercheurs et prend un malin plaisir à dénoncer les enquêtes douteuses…

Bill Bryson, "Une histoire du corps humain à l’usage de ses occupants"  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by TimMa at Sept. 21, 2020
Bill Bryson, "Une histoire du corps humain à l’usage de ses occupants"

Bill Bryson, "Une histoire du corps humain à l’usage de ses occupants"
2020 | ISBN: 2228926787 | Français | EPUB | 560 pages | 0.7 MB

Confinés à vie dans notre corps, nous sommes pourtant loin de bien le connaître. L'illustre Bill Bryson a donc endossé sa double panoplie d'écrivain-voyageur et de vulgarisateur scientifique afin de nous guider avec bonheur dans l'exploration de notre organisme jusqu'à l'infiniment petit. Il en révèle toute la complexité le plus simplement du monde, interroge les meilleurs chercheurs et prend un malin plaisir à dénoncer les enquêtes douteuses. …