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Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of the cosmic timeline.
May 22, 2018 · Origin Story. : David Christian. Penguin Books Limited, May 22, 2018 - History - 368 pages. 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 ...
Jun 22, 2018 · A journey through billions of years that nails home the point: Life is a miracle. Review by Eric Weiner. June 22, 2018 at 7:00 a.m. EDT. David Christian’s “big history” synthesizes several ...
David Christian. David Christian (D.Phil. Oxford, 1974) is by training a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, but since the 1980s he has become interested in World History on very large ...
Dec 5, 2014 · For the church, it provides the encouragement of knowing that hitherto the Lord has helped his people.”. Harry Stout’s approach is similar. He wants to follow Paul’s maxim to be “all things to all people” (1 Cor 9:22): “I am both a professional historian and a Christian historian, a dual practitioner sometimes emphasizing one or the ...
Big History represents an attempt at what E.O. Wilson has called “Consilience”, a return to the goal of a unified understanding of reality, in place of the fragmented visions that dominate modern education and scholarship. 2 Though it may seem new, the goal of consilience is very old. And even in its modern forms, big history has been ...
