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📱 eBook en inglés Origin Story

A Big History of Everything

Penguin- 9780241254691

Antropología Antropología física y biológica

Sinopsis de Origin Story

David Christian, creator of Big History (My favourite course of all time Bill Gates), brings us the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote future

Nails home the point: Life is a miracle ... A compelling history of everythingWashington Post
Spectacular Carlo Rovelli


How did we get from the Big Bang to todays staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?

Big History creator David Christian gives the answers in a mind-expanding cosmological detective story told on the grandest possible scale. He traces how, during eight key thresholds, the right conditions have allowed new forms of complexity to arise, from stars to galaxies, Earth to homo sapiens, agriculture to fossil fuels. This last mega-innovation gave us an energy bonanza that brought huge benefits to mankind, yet also threatens to shake apart everything we have created.

Rather like the Big Bang, the book is awe-inspiring ... SuperbThe Times

With fascinating ideas on every page and the page-turning energy of a good thriller, this is a landmark work Sir Ken Robinson, author of The Element

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Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 9780241254691

Idioma: Inglés

Fecha de lanzamiento: 22/05/2018


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Escrito por David Christian


David Christian es profesor del Departamento de Historia en la San Diego State University. Es autor de Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation (1990); Imperial and Soviet Russia: Power, Privilege and the Challenge of Modernity (1997); y A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia: Volume I: Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire (1998). Por Mapas del tiempo (Crítica, 2005) fue galardonado con el World History Association Annual Book Price en 2005.
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