Big History and the Future of Humanity

Featuring a number of updates and revisions, Big heritage and the way forward for Humanity, Second Edition, provides an obtainable and unique review of the whole sweep of heritage from the origins of the universe and origins of existence in the world as much as the current day.

  • Provides an obtainable and unique assessment of the whole sweep of background that locations human background in the context of the historical past of lifestyles, the Earth, and the universe
  • Offers new insights into the way forward for humanity via supplying a greater knowing of the past
  • Features various updates and revisions that come with elevated insurance of key techniques equivalent to the emergence of human behaviour, the improvement of worth structures, and styles of complexity in massive History
  • Incorporates various 'little tremendous histories' that reduction readers in spotting how giant background strategies can relate to their day-by-day lives
  • Instructor assets from the writer may be to be had on-line upon publication

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