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This volume will be useful both for those who study interdisciplinary macroproblems and for specialists working in focused directions, as well as for those who are interested in evolutionary issues of Astrophysics, Geology, Biology, History, Anthropology, Linguistics and other areas of study. More than that, this edition will challenge and excite your vision of your own life and the exciting new discoveries going on around us!

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Table of Contents

Introduction. Big History's Big Potential
Section 1. Understanding and Explaining Big History
David Christian. Swimming upstream: universal Darwinism and human history
David Baker. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Collective Learning as a Key Concept in Big History
Lowell Gustafson. From Particles to Politics
Esther Quaedackers. To See the World in a Building: A Little Big History of Tiananmen
Sun Yue. Chinese Traditions and Big History
Ken Gilbert. The Universal Breakthroughs of Big History: Developing a Unified Theory .
Ekaterina Sazhienko. The Future of Global Civilization: Commentary of Big Historians
Section 2. Big History's Phases, Regularities, and Dimensions
Leonid Grinin. The Star-Galaxy Era of Big History in the Light of Universal Evolutionary Principles
Andrey Korotayev, Alexander Markov. Mathematical modeling of biological and social phases of big history
Ken Baskin. The Dynamics of Evolution: What Complexity Theory Suggests for Big History’s Approach to Biological and Cultural Evolution
Abel A. Alves. The Animals of the Spanish Empire: Humans and Other Animals in Big History
Craig Benjamin. Big History, Collective Learning and the Silk Roads
Barry Rodrigue. Retrofitting the Future
Joseph Voros. Galactic-Scale Macro-engineering: Looking for Signs of Other intelligent
Species, as an Exercise in Hope for our Own
Section 3. Teaching Big History
Michael Duffy, D’Neil Duffy. Big History and Elementary Education
Tracy Sullivan. Big History and the secondary classroom: A Twenty-First century approach to interdisciplinarity?
Cynthia Stokes Brown. Constructing a Survey Big History Course
John Fowler. Cosmology, Mythology, and the Timeline of Light
Jonathon Cleland Host. Big History Beads: A Flexible Pedagogical Method
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