Big History: Between Nothing and Everything
David Christian
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Description for Big History: Between Nothing and Everything
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 352 pages, colour illustrations, colour tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 702.
Big History: Between Nothing and Everything surveys the past not just of humanity, or even of planet Earth, but of the entire 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 incorporates findings from cosmology, earth and life sciences, and human history, and assembles them into a single, universal historical narrative of our universe and of our place within it.
The first edition of Big History: Between Nothing and Everything, is written by the pioneers of ... Read more
Big History: Between Nothing and Everything surveys the past not just of humanity, or even of planet Earth, but of the entire 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 incorporates findings from cosmology, earth and life sciences, and human history, and assembles them into a single, universal historical narrative of our universe and of our place within it.
The first edition of Big History: Between Nothing and Everything, is written by the pioneers of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780073385617
SKU
V9780073385617
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-50
About David Christian
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 ... Read more
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