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Big History: Between Nothing and Everything Paperback – Illustrated, 8 September 2013

by David Christian (Author), Cynthia Brown (Author), Craig Benjamin (Author)
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Surveys the past not just of humanity, or even of planet Earth, but of the entire universe. In 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. It incorporates findings from cosmology, earth and life sciences, and human history.
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DAVID CHRISTIAN (DPhil, Oxford University) is by training a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. He has spent most of his career at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, apart from an eight-year period teaching at San Diego State University from 2001 to 2008. Christian has published histories of modern Russia and also a study of the role of the trade in vodka in nineteenth-century Russia. In 1998, he published A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, the first volume in the Blackwell History of the World Series. He began teaching courses on big history in 1989 at Macquarie University. He first used the phrase big history for such courses in an article published in the Journal of World History in 1991 titled The Case for Big History. In 2010, with Bill Gates, he founded the Big History Project, which is building a free online high school course in big history due for release in late 2013. Christian is a member of the Australian Academy of Humanities and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. He is the founding president of the International Big History Association.

CYNTHIA STOKES BROWN (PhD, Johns Hopkins University) spent most of her career directing the secondary teaching credential program at Dominican University of California. She taught selected courses in the history department and wrote books about civil rights history and teachers, Browns book Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present was published in 2007. Since then her interests have been consulting with the big history program at Dominican, serving on the board of the International Big History Association since its inception, and writing big history essays for high school students through the Big History Project funded by Bill Gates.

CRAIG BENJAMIN (PhD, Macquarie University) is an associate professor of history in the Meijer Honors College at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Like both his co-authors, Benjamin is a frequent presenter of lectures at conferences worldwide, and the author of numerous publications including books, chapters, and essays on ancient Central Asian history, big history, and world history. In addition, Benjamin has recorded lectures for the History Channel, The Teaching Company, and the Big History Project. He is currently a member of both the Advanced Placement and SAT World History Test Development Committees, vice president (president elect) of the World History Association, and has been treasurer of the International Big History Association since its inception in January 2011.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw Hill; 1st edition (8 September 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0073385611
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0073385617
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.59 x 2.29 x 27.43 cm
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Alexandre Bastos Penteado
5.0 out of 5 stars A big book on big history
Reviewed in Canada on 30 November 2017
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Excellent book! An amazing student book if you are taking the on line course on Big History.
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Lowell Gustafson
5.0 out of 5 stars What you have inherited from the past 13.82 billion years.
Reviewed in the United States on 30 December 2014
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Along with Cynthia Brown and Craig Benjamin, David Christian draws on physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, anthropology, and other fields to tell the coherent, evidence based story of the stages from the Big Bang 13.82 billion years ago until now, with reasoned expectations for the future. It places the written record of the human past within the natural record of the entire past. The periods of the past are embedded now in what we are made of and how we are made. The common origin of everything in a singularity of infinite heat and density without mass, of all life on earth from the Last Universal Common Ancestor, of all humans from a sturdy band of Africans about 200,000 years ago is a powerful story. You are made of hydrogen atoms that were likely formed soon after the Big Bang and carbon that was formed in a star at least five billion years ago. The gold in the ring on your finger was made in a supernova. Our inheritance from the past is profound - and the authors explain it all well.
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David Cooke
5.0 out of 5 stars This book combines physics, chemistry, biology and other ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2016
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This book combines physics, chemistry, biology and other subjects with the history of everything from the Big Bang to present day. A truly inspirational book.
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HOHLFELD Patrick
5.0 out of 5 stars Big History
Reviewed in France on 14 July 2015
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Le meilleur livre d'histoire qui soit.
Rend plus intelligent...
Lire aussi "Maps of Time" : un seul regret, l'absence de version française.
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Pedro Garcma Barreno
5.0 out of 5 stars Libro imprescindible para conocer el proceso histótico global
Reviewed in Spain on 30 May 2014
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Por su contenido, la estructura de este, la presentación y el formato
Recomendado para todo aquel que quiera estar informado en el proceso histórico global
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