万物简史
A short history of nearly everything
Bill Bryson · 初版 2003 年
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为什么值得读
- 文笔幽默生动能激发对科学的由衷赞叹
- 覆盖面极广是涉足非虚构科学的理想起点
- 用通俗概括串联多领域知识避免枯燥细节
美国作家 Bill Bryson 所著的 A Short History of Nearly Everything 是一部通俗科普读物，用通俗易懂且比同类专业书籍更能打动大众的语言深入浅出地阐释了诸多科学领域。它是2005年英国最畅销的科普著作之一，销量逾30万册。A Short History 颠覆了 Bryson 擅长的畅销旅行文学风格，转而系统梳理了化学、古生物学、天文学和粒子物理学等基础科学领域。在书中，他带领读者漫步于从 Big Bang 到人类发现……的时空长河。
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……能有本好的数学书（虽然那正是我在找的），那有没有什么你看过的书，能带给你同样的狂喜震撼？就我个人而言，比尔·布莱森的《万物简史》（A Short History of Nearly Everything）和马尔科姆·格拉德威尔的《引爆点》（The Tipping Point）都曾给过我这种启发。（虽然后者并不完全算它自称的那种严肃科学书，但我依然被它探讨的概念深深吸引了。）有没有……
…have a good math book (though that's what I'm looking for), are there any books you've read that inspire that same sort of ecstasy in you? Personally, I've found myself inspired both by Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, along with Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point. (Even though the latter wasn't exactly a scientific book like it purports itself to be, I was still fascinated by the concept it discussed.) Anything…
我很喜欢布莱森的《万物简史》（A Short History of Nearly Everything），不过这本书已经是17年前的了。
I love Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything” but it’s now 17 years old.
非虚构类：- 汉斯·罗斯林的《事实》（Factfulness）- 肖恩·奥托的《科学争夺战》（The War on Science）- 托马斯·索维尔的《基础经济学》（Basic Economics）- 比尔·布莱森的《万物简史》（A Short History of Nearly Everything）- 迈克·邓肯的《风暴之前的风暴》（The Storm Before the Storm）- 乌戈·梅西耶的《理性的迷思》（The Enigma of Reason）虚构类：- 阿加莎·克里斯蒂的《无人生还》（And Then There Were None）- 布兰登·桑德森的《迷雾之子》三部曲（The Mistborn Trilogy）……
Non-fiction: - Factfulness by Hans Rosling - The War on Science by Shawn Otto - Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell - A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson - The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan - The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier Fiction: - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson…
……去学法语，就为了能读它的原版印刷本。不过一定要买足本无删节版（一千两百或一千四百页的那种）！顺便也提一本非虚构类的，比尔·布莱森的《万物简史》（A Short History of Nearly Everything）非常适合送给有科学偏好的读者（尤其是年轻人），作为踏入非虚构世界的第一块敲门砖，文笔幽默，叙述也很精彩。
…to learn French just so I could read it in the original print. Make sure it's the full, unabridged edition (1200 or 1400 pages), though! (Just to throw in a nonfiction title as well, Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything is a great gift for scientifically-inclined minds (esp younger ones) looking for a first foray into the world of nonfiction, wittily-written and well-narrated.)
……伙计！不过你得接受一些泛泛的概括，毕竟现在想深入了解所有事物的细枝末节，大概已经超出一个人一生能读完的极限了。比尔·布莱森的《万物简史》（A Short History of Nearly Everything）是个相当不错的入门选择，或者是理查德·道金斯的《拆解彩虹》（Unweaving the Rainbow），那本书讲的是科学在解释自然的过程中，非但没有削减自然之美，反而让它更加绚丽动人。
…baby! You'll have to make do with some generalizations though, trying to go into the detail of every single thing is probably beyond what can be read in a single human's life time now. Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything is pretty good start, or Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins, which is a book about how science makes nature even more beautiful by explaining it, not less.
比尔·布莱森的《万物简史》（A Short History of Nearly Everything）。这是一部人类理性的进化史，梳理了科学是如何萌芽并发展成我们今天所知的样貌。它能帮你补上很多当年上各种科学课时遗漏或忘掉的重要知识盲区，同时还提供了……
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything. It's a history of human reasoning, tracking the emergence of science into what we know today. Fills in a lot of meaningful gaps you may have forgotten from your various science courses, while providing…