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This Fleeting World - A Very Small Book of Big History: The Story of the Universe and History of Humanity (Paperback)
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This Fleeting World - A Very Small Book of Big History: The Story of the Universe and History of Humanity (Paperback)
Series: This World of Ours
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This Fleeting World is the smallest book of big history, telling
the story of the universe and history of humanity in less than one
hundred pages. Prize-winning historian David Christian covers it
all in this compact, accessible, and inspiring guide to the history
of everything, from stars and empires to cities, the World Wide
Web, capitalism, and globalization. David Christian's approach to
human history and big history is a call to action, based on a
profound and fresh understanding of our place in the universe. This
book is essential reading for our time. David Christian asks big
questions. Will contemporary challenges will lead to the emergence
of a new global system capable of ecological, economic, and
political stability? Or is the accelerating pace of change a
prelude to a sudden, sharp collapse that will drive many parts of
the world back to the productivity levels of the early agrarian
era?He presents our origin story and the history of women and men
across the entire world, within the framework of the universe
explaining, for example, that the chemicals we are made of come
from supernovae. He tells the human story as a story of changes:
changes in the ways we produce and distribute food, move from place
to place, organize ourselves into communities, explore and populate
our environment, and both create and respond to crises. He gives us
maps of time, history on different temporal-spatial scales, and
even offers paths to locate evidence that might challenge his big
story. Big history leads to strategies for building a more
sustainable world, and Berkshire Publishing is proud to offer this
new edition of a big history for our common future. The 2018
edition has been expanded and updated for the general reader; there
is also an earlier edition designed for use with AP World History
and other courses, which included a teachers' guide.
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