Bryson: 215 books

From one of the most beloved authors of our time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. “Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill...

One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail**—well, most of it. In A Sunburned...

One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail**—well, most of it. In A Sunburned...

“Bryson is as amusing as ever….As a celebration of 350 years of modern science, [Seeing Further]it is a worthy tribute.” —The Economist In Seeing Further, New York Times bestseller Bill Bryson takes readers on a guided tour through the great discoveries, feuds, and personalities of...

In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyzes the origins, history and logic of still life, one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in the second the author surveys a major...

A novella sized piece covering the Ulster troubles, called the Stormont Riots, the street battles and intrigues of Ulster Protestants and IRA. "John Bryson has the skills of literary journalism, and abundant luck" a Penguin Books copywriter wrote for a back cover, and this was the...

Una delle piccole meraviglie del mio viaggio in Europa fu scoprire che il mondo poteva essere tanto vario da originare modi diversi di fare in pratica le stesse identiche cose, tipo mangiare e bere e acquistare biglietti per il cinema. Mi affascinava come gli europei potessero essere tanto uguali...

«Bryson è sicuramente un buon compagno di viaggio e un buon osservatore, con uno sguardo divertito per tutto ciò che appare eccentrico.» Mordecai Richler, autore di La versione di Barney Dopo aver vissuto per quasi vent’anni in Gran Bretagna, Bill Bryson sente che è tempo di fare le...

Nadat hij jarenlang niet meer in zijn geboorteland is geweest, besluit Bill Bryson de Verenigde Staten opnieuw te bezoeken. Hij volgt de Appalachian Trail, een wandelpad van 3500 kilometer van Georgia naar Maine, en aanschouwt een adembenemend landschap. Maar het biedt Bryson ook oneindige mogelijkheden...

Basing his contention on two different lines of argument, Michael Bryson posits that John Milton-possibly the most famous 'Christian' poet in English literary history-was, in fact, an atheist. First, based on his association with Arian ideas (denial of the doctrine of the Trinity), his argument for...

In this book, Robert Bryson, a mechanical engineer specializing in automated manufacture and robotics, who certainly thinks outside the box,  discusses aging, breast cancer, and AIDS. He explains how the solution to many of our health problems may be easier to find than most of us have thought. Bryson...

`Daniel Siegel en Tina Payne Bryson hebben een meesterlijk, toegankelijk boek geschreven om kinderen te helpen hun emotionele intelligentie te ontwikkelen. Deze briljante methode transformeert alledaagse interactie tot waardevolle, brein-vormende momenten.' Daniel Goleman, auteur van Emotionele intelligentie...

Abwarten, Tee trinken, weiterreisen! Vor über dreißig Jahren beschloss der Amerikaner Bill Bryson, England zu seiner Wahlheimat zu machen und für einige Jahre dort zu leben. Damals brach er auf zu einer großen Erkundungsreise quer über die britische Insel. Inzwischen ist er ein alter Hase,...

Typisch Bill Bryson: eine humorvolle und leicht verständliche Einführung in Shakespeares Leben, seine Werke und seine Zeit Mensch oder Mythos – wer war William Shakespeare wirklich, der geistige Vater von Romeo und Julia, von Hamlet und Macbeth? Gab es den Menschen Shakespeare überhaupt?...