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In reading this book instructors and students will retrace a voyage that began 13.7 billion years ago with the Big Bang and the appearance of the universe.
In reading this book instructors and students will retrace a voyage that began 13.7 billion years ago with the Big Bang and the appearance of the universe.
Big History: Between Nothing and Everything
David Christian, professor of history at San Diego State University, illustrates that history encompasses all disciplines from conventional history to biology and geology to cosmology.
Weaving together multiple disciplines including physics and sociology, and with a foreword by TED speaker Professor David Christian, Big History is a truly unique look at the history of the world."
An epic for our time, Big History begins when the universe is no more than a single point the size of an atom, squeezed together in unimaginable density, and ends with a twenty-first-century planet inhabited by 6.1 billion people.
It is the modern human scientific and historical creation story.
... show-offs. Contrast between the sexes can be very pronounced indeed. A female elephant seal can be five times ... biggest kinds of cells. A sperm—one of the smallest—has a whiplike flagellum that helps it swim, powered by a single ...
Aligned with the online Big History Project supported by Bill Gates, Big History puts a wide-angle lens on 13.8 billion years of remarkable history and shows you how and why we got where we are today.
Why does the universe work the way it does? Why are stars so big? Why are humans so small? What does it mean to be human?