Cynthia Stokes Brown

Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present

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This exciting saga crosses space and time to illustrate how humans, born of stardust, were shaped-and how they in turn shaped the world we know today. -Publishers Weekly This book offers world history on a grand scale-pulling back for a wider view and putting the relatively brief time span of human history in context. After all, our five thousand years of recorded civilization account for only about one millionth of the lifetime of our planet (Kirkus Reviews). Big History interweaves different disciplines of knowledge, drawing on both the natural sciences and the human sciences, to offer an all-encompassing account of history on Earth. Thi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-59558-848-7
EAN: 9781595588487
Produktnummer: 19431506
Verlag: New Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.2 cm 367 g
Auflage: Revised
Gewicht: 367

Über den Autor

Cynthia Stokes Brown is a retired professor of education at Dominican University of California. She has written works of history and biography, including the American Book Award-winning Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement, Connecting with the Past, and Refusing Racism. She lives in Berkeley, California.