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.
This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote future
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.
029|123,《起源:万物大历史》。 这是一本雄心勃勃的书,想把《宇宙的一生》、《物种起源》、《人类简史》整合。 按道理,这是一本符合我“物质历史观”的历史著作。 但我感觉远远不仅于此,可能叙述太宏大,以至于过程中大部分处于非深度辩证思考的现有知识或理论。 笔者分成...
评分一天半的时间阅读完了此书,书中的内容,并不想复述了,因为范围很大,在300页内完成148亿年的故事,自然不会很精。说自己的结论,本书越早期的部分越精彩,因为越早总体越简单,立论合理性更强,到了人类的部分,基本相当于背历史书,XX年人类历史上发生了什么重要的XXX事。让...
评分“大历史”一词,最初源自美国历史学者大卫·克里斯蒂安开设的一门课程:以枝干分明的框架勾勒出宇宙大爆炸至今的历史,以跨学科的视野讲述这一宏大主题。自此,“大历史”的概念深受学者和知名人士的推荐,相关著作亦不乏来者。大卫·克里斯蒂安本人就针对不同的读者群出版了...
评分一天半的时间阅读完了此书,书中的内容,并不想复述了,因为范围很大,在300页内完成148亿年的故事,自然不会很精。说自己的结论,本书越早期的部分越精彩,因为越早总体越简单,立论合理性更强,到了人类的部分,基本相当于背历史书,XX年人类历史上发生了什么重要的XXX事。让...
评分故事怎么开头决定了故事讲述者的世界观。把时间的起点设定在何处,是一门技艺,即便是模糊的“从前”背后也设定了一种观念:或许是真的,或许不是,判断权在听故事的你。所以故事是在传达一种共同的信仰。 今天的中学生都已经知道的常识“宇宙大爆炸”其实是半个世纪前才确立下...
前半部分生词比较多,后面到人文就好多了。内容没啥,用来练英语不错,看中文就不值得了。
评分把视角放到能量和信息,颇独到,有启发
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评分前半部分生词比较多,后面到人文就好多了。内容没啥,用来练英语不错,看中文就不值得了。
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