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Big history : from the big bang to the present
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's a story that takes in prehistoric geology, human evolution, the agrarian age, the Black Death, the voyages of Columbus, the industrial revolution, and global warming. Historian Cynthia Brown visits the Vikings, the Mayas and Aztecs, the Incas, the Mongol empire, and the Islamic heartlands. Along the way she considers topics as varied as cell formation, population growth, global disparities, and illiteracy, creating a stunning synthesis of historical and scientific knowledge of humanity and the earth we inhabit. Big History represents a new kind of history, one that skillfully interweaves historical knowledge and cutting-edge science. In an age of global warming, when the fate of the earth hangs in the balance, scientific advances permit us to see the universe as never before, grasping the timescales that allow us to understand the history of mankind in the context of its ecological impact on the planet. Cynthia Brown's lucid, accessible narrative is the first popularization of this innovative new field of study, as thrilling as it is ambitious. - Publisher.
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تاريخ الأحداث الكبرى من الانفجار الكبير إلى الزمن الحاضر
هذا كتاب ملحمي يبدأ عندما كان الكون مجرد نقطة وحيدة في حجم ذرة، مضغوطا بدرجة لا يمكن تخيلها وينتهي الكتاب في القرن الحادي والعشرين بكوكب يسكنه ما يربو على ستة مليارات من البشر وهي ملحمة تتناول الجيولوجيا وتطور البشر وعصر الزراعة والدفء العالمي وتزور سينثيا براون السلت والفايكنج والمايا والأزتيك والإنكا وإمبراطورية المغول والعالم الإسلامي وعلى طول الطريق تتناول المؤلفة موضوعات متنوعة مثل تكون الخلية والانفجار السكاني والتناقضات العالمية والأمية، وتمزج مزجا رائعا بين المعارف التاريخية والعلمية للبشر والأرض التي نقطنها.
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On the Largest Scale: Big History
[...] it may be better to think of it less as a new subject than a different perspective on history. [...] the year's work might have more coherence if extra time were given to standard 10.3, analyzing the effects on the Industrial Revolution in Europe, Japan and the U. S. In addition, the Industrial Revolution needs recurrent attention in connection with other topics, such as imperialism (standard 10.4) and World War I (standards 10.5 and 10.6). *In the tenth grade, one could plan to save one week at the end of the second semester to look at the twentieth century from a big history perspective.
Journal Article
A Little Big History of Big History
Only human beings can tell stories. No other animals can, so far as we know. It took a universe to produce story-telling human beings. So, to tell the story of how people began to tell the Big History story, we need to go all the way back to how the universe began.
In the beginning, some 13.8 billion years ago, out of a mysterious something or nothing that we know nothing about, all the energy and matter in our entire universe burst forth from one tiny spot. Temperatures were so high that matter could not form; there was only energy.
Book Chapter
Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
Since he gives no sources, checking his veracity becomes a time-consuming task. In 2009, when Hugo Chávez gave a copy of Open Veins of Latin America to President Obama at the Fifth Summit of the Americas, it went to the number 2 position on the Amazon bestseller list.
Book Review