A short history of nearly everything (Record no. 16666)
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| fixed length control field | 03282dam a2200337 a 4500 |
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| control field | 0000044098 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | 0001 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 051025s2004 nyua b 001 0 eng |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | SDL |
| -- | BAKER |
| -- | JHY |
| -- | COR |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 500 |
| 084 ## - OTHER CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 500 |
| Item number | BRY-S |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bryson, Bill. |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A short history of nearly everything |
| Medium | [Book] / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Bill Bryson. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Black Swan ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Black Swan, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2004. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 687 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 22 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 596-616) and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | In this book Bill Bryson explores the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer and attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound scientific minds, living and dead. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people, like himself, made bored (or scared) stiff of science by school. His interest is not simply to discover what we know but to find out how we know it. How do we know what is in the center of the earth, thousands of miles beneath the surface? How can we know the extent and the composition of the universe, or what a black hole is? How can we know where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through space and time, Bill Bryson encounters a splendid gallery of the most fascinating, eccentric, competitive, and foolish personalities ever to ask a hard question. In their company, he undertakes a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge. |
| 521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE | |
| Target audience note | All. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science |
| Form subdivision | Popular works. |
| 852 ## - LOCATION | |
| Accession No. | 20732 |
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| Former shelving location | Books |
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| Accession No. | 20735 |
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| Accession No. | 20736 |
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| Accession No. | 20737 |
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| Former shelving location | Books |
| Accession No. | 20738 |
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| -- | Mohammad Ayub Trading |
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| Accession No. | 20739 |
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| Accession No. | 20740 |
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| Accession No. | 20741 |
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| -- | Mohammad Ayub Trading |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad | Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad | 09/07/2023 | 500 BRY-S | 20738 | 09/07/2023 | 09/07/2023 | Books | |||||
| Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad | Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad | 09/07/2023 | 500 BRY-S | 20740 | 09/07/2023 | 09/07/2023 | Books | |||||
| Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad | Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad | 09/07/2023 | 500 BRY-S | 20741 | 09/07/2023 | 09/07/2023 | Books |