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Mar 04, 2009 bestselling author bill bryson launches a pioneering new book from durham university. In the bestselling, prizewinning a short history of nearly everything bill bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Author bill bryson launches universitys book of big ideas. More than 20 years after he first published notes from a. Bill bryson, bestselling author of a short history of nearly everything, takes us on a headtotoe tour of the marvel that is the human body. Before new york times bestselling author bill bryson wrote the road to little dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around. A walk in the woods, notes from a big country, notes from a small island. Bryson was born and raised in des moines, iowa, the son of bill bryson sr.
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