[PDF] Teaching Big History

• Author : Richard B. Simon,Mojgan Behmand,Thomas Burke
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release Date : 2014-12-23
• ISBN : 9780520283558

Big History is a new field on a grand scale: it tells the story of the universe over time through a diverse range of disciplines that spans cosmology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and archaeology, thereby reconciling traditional human history with environmental geography and natural history. Weaving the myriad threads of evidence-based human knowledge into a master narrative that stretches from the beginning of the universe to the present, the Big History framework helps students make sense of

• Author : DK
• Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
• Release Date : 2016-10-03
• ISBN : 9780241296400

"From the formation of the Universe to today, countless major events have changed the course of life on Earth. Aligned with the online Big History Project supported by Bill Gates, Big History puts a wide-angle lens on 13.8 billion years of remarkable history and shows you how and why we got where we are today. With stunning visual timelines and special CGI reconstructions, you can see history's greatest events. Look back to our origins in the stars, explore everything from the

• Author : Cynthia Stokes Brown
• Publisher : The New Press
• Release Date : 2012
• ISBN : 9781595588487

Big History tells the story of the universe, from the beginning to now, by interweaving the fields of biology, geology and anthropology to offer an all-encompassing account of Earth's history. Flowing seamlessly from the birth of the universe to life on a planet inhabited by billions of people, this is a mind altering account of the fate of the Earth and of our role in this ongoing story. Featuring Cynthia Stokes Brown's paradigm-shifting movement, Big History is a seminal work

• Author : Cynthia Stokes Brown
• Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
• Release Date : 2016-12-30
• ISBN : 9781614728573

The newest way to think about the universe becomes engaging and personal in Big History, Small World: From the Big Bang to You by Cynthia Stokes Brown. Her clear introduction to big history, divided into eight thresholds of time, is the perfect starting point for any reader intrigued by this rich blend of history and science. Big History, Small World is also the first book about big history specifically designed to be used in high school courses and with the

• Author : Fred Spier
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2015-05-06
• ISBN : 9781118881729

big history and the future of humanity “This remains the best single attempt to theorize big history as a discipline that can link core concepts and paradigms across all historical disciplines, from cosmology to geology, from biology to human history. With additional and updated material, the Second Edition also offers a fine introduction to the history of big history and a superb introductory survey to the big history story. Essential reading for anyone interested in a rapidly evolving new field

• Author : Leonid Grinin,David Baker,Esther Quaedackers,Andrey Korotayev
• Publisher : ООО "Издательство "Учитель"
• Release Date : 2014-06-30
• ISBN : 9785705740277

According to the working definition of the International Big History Association, ‘Big History seeks to understand the integrated history of the Cosmos, Earth, Life and Humanity, using the best available empirical evidence and scholarly methods.’ In recent years Big History has been developing very fast indeed. Big History courses are taught in the schools and universities of several dozen countries. Hundreds of researchers are involved in studying and teaching Big History. The unique approach of Big History, the interdisciplinary genre

• Author : Leonid E. Grinin,Andrey V. Korotayev
• Publisher : ООО "Издательство "Учитель"
• Release Date : 2013-09-30
• ISBN : 9785705737420

The application of the evolutionary approach to the history of nature and society has remained one of the most effective ways to conceptualize and integrate our growing knowledge of the Universe, life, society and human thought. The present volume demonstrates this in a rather convincing way. This is the third issue of the Almanac series titled ‘Evolution’. The first volume came out with the sub-heading ‘Cosmic, Biological, and Social’, the second was entitled ‘Evolution: A Big History Perspective’. The present

• Author : Fred Spier
• Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
• Release Date : 1996
• ISBN : 9053562206

The social and natural sciences have more in common than most people would perhaps suspect. This thought-provoking study, the first of its kind ever attempted, presents a single straightforward structure which unites the latest scientific views on the history of the Universe, the Solar System, Earth, life and humankind. It contributes to a better understanding of some long-standing academic controversies, such as the root causes for the origins of humankind, the rise of agriculture and the emergence of early states.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release Date : 2019-11-29
• ISBN : 9780081022962

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition embraces diversity by design and captures the ways in which humans share places and view differences based on gender, race, nationality, location and other factors—in other words, the things that make people and places different. Questions of, for example, politics, economics, race relations and migration are introduced and discussed through a geographical lens. This updated edition will assist readers in their research by providing factual information, historical perspectives, theoretical approaches, reviews of

• Author : Elena Aronova
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release Date : 2021-04-02
• ISBN : 9780226761411

Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a reengagement with the natural sciences. Taking their cues from recent breakthroughs in genetics and the neurosciences, advocates of “big history” are reassessing long-held assumptions about the very definition of history, its methods, and its evidentiary base. In Scientific History, Elena Aronova maps out historians’ continuous engagement with the methods, tools, values, and scale of the natural sciences by examining several waves of their experimentation that surged highest at perceived times of

• Author : Jan G. van der Watt,R. Alan Culpepper
• Publisher : Brill
• Release Date : 2015-11-16
• ISBN : 9789004306677

This book is about creation stories in dialogue, not only between different religious views, but also between current day scientific perspectives.

• Author : Christian Koeberl,Alessandro Montanari
• Publisher : Geological Society of America
• Release Date : 2009
• ISBN : 9780813724522

The Late Eocene and the Eocene-Oligocene (E-O) transition mark the most profound oceanographic and climatic changes of the past 50 million years of Earth history, with cooling beginning in the middle Eocene and culminating in the major earliest Oligocene Oi-1 isotopic event. The Late Eocene is characterized by an accelerated global cooling, with a sharp temperature drop near the E-O boundary, and significant stepwise floral and faunal turnovers. These global climate changes are commonly attributed to the expansion of the Antarctic

• Author : Douglas Northrop
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2012-08-07
• ISBN : 9781118305478

A Companion to World History presents over 30 essays from an international group of historians that both identify continuing areas of contention, disagreement, and divergence in world and global history, and point to directions for further debate. Features a diverse cast of contributors that include established world historians and emerging scholars Explores a wide range of topics and themes, including and the practice of world history, key ideas of world historians, the teaching of world history and how it has drawn

• Author : Leonid E. Grinin ,Andrey V. Korotayev
• Publisher : ООО "Издательство "Учитель"
• Release Date : 2022-08-15
• ISBN : 9785705759446

Every time we work on this Yearbook, we are focused on making at least a small step forward to gradual elaboration of a megaevolutionary paradigm which is designed to create a united scientific field for cross-disciplinary studies. The present volume is the seventh issue of the ‘Evolution’ Yearbook series. Our Yearbooks are designed to present to its readers the widest possible spectrum of subjects and issues: from universal evolutionism to the analysis of particular evolutionary regularities in the development of

• Author : Scott Alan Metzger,Lauren McArthur Harris
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2018-03-02
• ISBN : 9781119100805

A comprehensive review of the research literature on history education with contributions from international experts The Wiley International Handbook of History Teaching and Learning draws on contributions from an international panel of experts. Their writings explore the growth the field has experienced in the past three decades and offer observations on challenges and opportunities for the future. The contributors represent a wide range of pioneering, established, and promising new scholars with diverse perspectives on history education. Comprehensive in scope, the