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Waar komt de wereld vandaan? Hoe lang is de mens al op de aarde? Hoe groot is het heelal? Vragen die niet alleen volwassenen, maar ook kinderen stelle

In 'Een kleine geschiedenis van bijna alles' onderneemt Bill Bryson zijn meest avontuurlijke reis tot nu toe: die door het leven zelf. Met hetzelfde e

Nadat hij twintig jaar niet meer in zijn geboorteland is geweest besluit Bill Bryson de Verenigde Staten opnieuw te bezoeken. Hij volgt de Appalachian

Packed full of facts, big numbers (such as the amount of microbes that make you) and small numbers (the size of those very tiny microbes) all in full-

Developing a Questionnaire: 2nd Edition is a comprehensive guide to the successful design and implementation of questionnaires as a research method. I

Each chapter takes up a discrete question, from "How did documentary filmmaking get started?to "Why are ethical issues central to documentary filmmaki

Originally published as The Penguin Dictionary for Writers and Editors, Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors has now been completely revised an

The author was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what histo

In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of

In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on ta

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From bestselling author Bill Bryson comes this compelling short biography of William Shakespeare, our greatest dramatist and poet.

Adapted from Mother Tongue this stunningly illustrated book by Bill Bryson tells the story of English, from the first words ever spoken to the very fi

Bill Bryson’s biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet an

Waarom zijn we van alle specerijen op aarde zo gehecht aan zout en peper? Waarom hebben vorken vier tanden en niet drie of vijf? En wat doet die rij z

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. This book an

It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems

The author has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. Whether discussing the