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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything: Gates Notes - Cărți recomandate de Bill Gates

Autor David Christian
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mai 2018
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?
Big History creator David Christian gives the answers in a mind-expanding cosmological detective story told on the grandest possible scale. He traces how, during eight key thresholds, the right conditions have allowed new forms of complexity to arise, from stars to galaxies, Earth tohomo sapiens, agriculture to fossil fuels. This last mega-innovation gave us an energy bonanza that brought huge benefits to mankind, yet also threatens to shake apart everything we have created.
This global origin story is one that we could only begin to tell recently, thanks to the underlying unity of modern knowledge. Panoramic in scope and thrillingly told,Origin Storyreveals what we learn about human existence when we consider it from a universal scale.
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ISBN-13: 9780241338377
ISBN-10: 0241338379
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
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Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

David Christian is a distinguished professor in history at Macquarie University in Australia and the co-founder, with Bill Gates, of The Big History Project, which has built a free online syllabus on the history of the universe and is taught in schools all over the world. He is also co-creator of Macquarie University Big History School, which provides online courses in big history for primary and high school students. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. He has delivered keynotes at conferences around the world including at the Davos World Economic Forum, and his TED Talk on the history of the Universe has been viewed over 7 million times.


Recenzii

Origin Storyis amajesticdistillation of our current understanding of the birth of the universe, of the solar system, of the oceans, of mountains and minerals, of all life on earth and of the driving dynamics of human culture and achievement. All of this in just over 300 pages ofcaptivating prosethat weaves together innumerable insights from the sciences, arts and humanities. With fascinating ideas on every page andthe page turning energy of a good thriller, this is a landmark workthat comes at a time when it has never been more important for humanity to have a clearer, more informed understanding of our place on earth and of the earth's place in the cosmos.A spellbinding synthesis
A journey through billions of years that nails home the point: Life is a miracle ... [A]remarkably cogent and compelling history of everything
Rather like the Big Bang, the book isawe-inspiring. The processes it describes are all familiar, but I'd never seen them explained with such clarity and verve ...Superb
[Origin Storyis]long-haul science with wit and oomph
Christian tells this story very well, providing, in effect, a short course in modern science. This isa brief history of the universe, and an excellent one
I have long been a fan of David Christian. InOrigin Story, heelegantly weaves evidence and insightsfrom many scientific and historical disciplinesinto a single, accessible historical narrative
InOrigin Story, David Christian has found aspectacularway to use history to put order in the entire set of our knowledge about the world. This isa wonderful achievement
Aremarkablebook that puts us self-important humans in our proper place in the cosmos, yet alsoexplains why the story of human culture and knowledge- what Christian calls collective learning -matters for understanding our present world and shaping its future

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How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?
Big History creator David Christian gives the answers in a mind-expanding cosmological detective story told on the grandest possible scale. He traces how, during eight key thresholds, the right conditions have allowed new forms of complexity to arise, from stars to galaxies, Earth to homo sapiens, agriculture to fossil fuels. This last mega-innovation gave us an energy bonanza that brought huge benefits to mankind, yet also threatens to shake apart everything we have created.
This global origin story is one that we could only begin to tell recently, thanks to the underlying unity of modern knowledge. Panoramic in scope and thrillingly told, Origin Story reveals what we learn about human existence when we consider it from a universal scale.